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[Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines
- Subject: [Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines
- From: richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:05:18 -0700
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+1 to trying a port to Google Voice. I subscribed to it a couple months before my move to San Francisco, just so I could get a 415 phone number to give out to friends before the move. (Wound up keeping my 617 mobile number ever since, weird... but yeah I understand the advantages of keeping the same number for a couple decades, which is why I keep it.) I've been using an Obitalk VOIP gateway and the free Google Voice service as my primary landline for almost 6 years now. I too have long been hard-of-hearing, and it's truly annoying how the mobile-phone companies persist in over-compressing voice calls at a time of plenty in back-end network bandwidth. Get an Obi200 VOIP unit ($47.46 on Amazon), sign up for Google Voice (still free) on a random phone number and try it out with your current Internet service and current telephone handset. I think you'll be amazed at how much better than a cell phone it is. If you like it, then you can port your long-time number to Google Voice (probably). -rich
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