On 12/24/2017 11:57 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:42:01 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
wrote:

On 12/23/2017 11:49 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 23:10:44 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
wrote:

On 12/23/2017 10:41 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

Do you mind if I ask which VOIP company you're using (reply by email if
you wish). I'm considering switching both my home and business numbers
to another company. Verizon has gone VOIP but they're expensive (and
have fewer features).

The company is/was Time Warner Cable that was bought or merged with
Spectrum. I only had the internet before the merge and it was about $
60 and the land line phone with another company was about $ 40 or $ 45
or just the basic service. No caller ID and 10 cents a minuit for long
distance.

By bundling the internet and phone I am paying about $ 69 per month for
both services and that includes a surcharge for the wifi modem and
probably because I wanted to keep Earthlink as the ISP instead of going
with them which I think is Roadrunner.

https://www.spectrum.com/home-phone.html

They advertise $ 29.99 each for some cable TV, phone , and internet if
you bundle them together. There is no contract or anyting. Not sure
how long they will hold that price as it has only been a few months.
Did not want the TV as using Direct TV and the wife wanted to keep it.

Only drawback I can think of now is if the cable line goes out I have to
use a cell phone to call them.




Ah, OK. I thought you had gone with one of the VOIP companies. We
don't have Spectrum here; there are some places on the other side of the
river in Virginia with them, but all we have available are Verizon and
XFinity. I think Verizon is the lesser of the two evils

You know nothing compels you to get your phone from your internet
provider. Microsoft provides unlimited worldwide service for
$14.99/month, plus $25 every three if you want a number that people
can call. Google has something similar.



I wouldn't get phone service from Microsoft if it were the last company
on earth. They're about the only company I consider worse than XFinity
in that respect. I don't want a phone that crashes three times a day.

I don't recall Skype _ever_ crashing. This "crashes three times a
day" business from people who last used Windows 30 years ago is
getting boring.


Even my Windows 7 Professional crashes on a semi-regular basis - at
least once or twice a week. Applications crash for no reason even more
often. But my Linux system on the same machine never crashes.

And yes, I have had Skype crash enough times I don't use it any more -
and haven't fore at least 3-4 years. Maybe it's better now but I don't
trust it.

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