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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
If you have a cable TV service, the digital "landline" is free or almost free, depending on the level of cable service you have. It can come in handy if you lose or break your cell phone.
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I intended to use my free Google Voice line, with my Obihai box, which was a one time cost to interface the free Google Voice service with the telephone sets. But due to the Comcast package I was in with cable TV, Internet, and cable landline, it would actually have been more expensive to drop the cable landline out of the package. I ended up using the Google Voice and Obihai box to connect to my printer for a separate, free, FAX line.
One huge downside of the cable landline is all the junk telemarketing calls that pour through! We got about 4 to 5 junk calls per day. We bought a Digitone Call Blocker, and programmed the call blocker for the telephone numbers that normally call us. As a result, all the junk calls then stopped cold. The junk callers still try to call, but the telephone sets do not ring. They only ring with the programmed numbers that are allowed to ring the telephone sets. All others can only leave voicemail. Junk callers almost never leave voicemail. When a new number that you want to ring leaves a voicemail, you simply add that number, so it can ring though in the future.
You don't have to live with the annoyance of hearing the telephone ring, and it's an annoying junk telemarked calling you. You can put a permanent end to the annoyance in your life! It's not that expensive or hard to do. Then junk telemarketers can never ring your landline again!
DIGITONE ProSeries Blocker - Block Any RoboCall Name or Number
Here's the Obihai device that interfaces the free Google Voice line to your telephone sets, a one time cost.
https://www.amazon.com/Obihai-OBi200...57382428&psc=1