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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
The majority of people today don't have a landline. However when we moved down here 3yrs ago I had a VOIP landline and I had one of those devices but the general problem with them is when there may be an emergency call from an "unknown number" will be sent to voicemail. If you have family and there is an emergency and a call comes from a hospital or police station or whatever that has not been while listed you may not get it before it's too late.
Also if you have an iPhone there is a feature on it now to do that exact same thing. It's "allow known callers only." Any call NOT in your contacts (white list) is sent to voicemail. That creates the same problem though. If there is an emergency you may not know.
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Where is “ Allow Known Callers” on the iPhone? I only found, “Settings”, “Phone”, “Silence Unknown Callers” and “Settings”, “Messages”, “Filter Unknown Senders”. The iPhone isn’t clear what it does to those unknown texts. It says it puts them in a separate group. I don’t know what that means. The goal should be to filter out junk texts.
I know that a lot of people dropped their landlines. Sometimes old people really like their landlines and keep them!
If you want free a free VOIP service, try Google Voice. You can tie Google Voice to your telephone hardware using an Obihai 200 or 202. A set top box, which is a one time cost. The Google Voice line has lots of features, which are also free. Google Voice can also be used as a second telephone number for your cellphone, in case you don’t want to give out your real cellphone number.
That’s true about the unknown numbers. It’s possible that it could be an emergency call from an unknown number. That’s the trade off to stopping the junk callers.
I look at junk callers about the same as TV commercials. I’ve been skipping TV commercials for over a decade and blocking junk callers almost as long.
The old way to silence the junk callers with the iPhone was to set your default ringtone to silent, and then set a custom audible ringtone for each number on your contact list. That’s the old way to silence junk text messages too. I downloaded the ringtone “Silence, Void of Sound” to setup that old method. Texting allows a silent ringtone, but there isn’t a silence default for the phone ringtone on the iPhone. You had to get around that problem by downloading a silent ringtone. I could have created a silent ringtone, but that would have been more hassle than it’s worth for about a $1 downloadable silent ringtone.