[Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

I also recommend porting to Callcentric.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:05:18AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote:
> +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