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Originally Posted by Dusty_Star
How about Ooma VoIP service for your father? My understanding is customers can keep their numbers, but you would have to investigate this for him.
(This is not an advertisement, I am just trying to be helpful. It might work for you, it might not.)
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I know MagicJack required a desktop/laptop to work and I assumed Ooma did too; he doesn't have either.
My preference would be to have him use just the single mobile number rather than having to deal with two numbers, two phones, two bills, etc. But I'll take a look at Ooma to see if that might work for his situation.
NOTE: I am trying simply to eliminate an expense. A VOIP phone is NOT a one-to-one replacement for a landline phone. In the worst of emergencies, the landline phone might be a bit more reliable than the mobile. On the other hand, I don't expect we will encounter that type of emergency so his mobile on one cell carrier and his internet (providing wifi calling and possibly Ooma) on another cell carrier seems sufficiently reliable.