On 12/3/2014 9:13 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
Changing the question. How about a simple long distance provider as I used
to have many years ago? One where you dial the service number and then the
number you're calling.
Buggy whips.
Saved me the trouble, and more to the point.
They still exist, but barely. Many of us have free long-distance as
part of our cell-phone plans. Check with Verizon, ATT and Sprint for
those packages. The free long-distance is for your land-line phone,
but is tied in with your monthly cell-phone contract.
This is not necessarily true. We have no land line from our cell provider, Verizon; they don't even serve this area. Our
plan does include free LD, nights & weekends and within our shared prime time minutes. In effect, any US number is the
same price as next door.
We DO have a land line, sort of, because Comcast's crazy pricing is cheaper for Internet plus phone than alone. I don't
know the number and have the ringer turned off on the phone connected to it. We could call out in an emergency where our
cell phones don't work and the cable connection does, I suppose
I think you can still find pre-paid long-distance calling cards at Wal-Mart.
And many bodegas, and so on.
The thing about VoIP is that there are two "types" of VoIP. There is
the carrier-provided VoIP and then there is the "skype" type of VoIP
which uses your Internet connection to attempt to do real-time
communications over a network designed for non-real-time data.
I was talking to a neighbor who is in Boca Raton at the moment. Rats, mice, aliens, Monte Python 'women', and who knows
what else were sharing the line.
Carrier VoIP is a different animal because it uses VoIP technology/protocol,
but uses dedicated "pipes" for the purpose.
Yup, the 2 or three times I've tried our Comcast line, it's been excellent. Whatever they are doing here, other than the
slight delay for a dial tone, it's better than our old copper real land line. We just don't need it.
Inter Connected Moose
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