Landline Service

[BobandMarilyn]

Does AT&T provide landline service in TV?

[Shimpy]

No. We went with Comcast after having at&t in S Fla.

[chuckster]

landline is provided by Century link which is the former embarq. Comcast is the cable tv, internet service with phone capability.

[Avista]

Check into Vonage. We have saved a lot of money.

[FoPAA]

I've been looking into Google Voice (planning my move to TV WELL in advance) but the closest available numbers were in Micanopy (234 exchange). Does anyone know if that's a toll call from TV?

[Pturner]

Land line service? We ditched it about a year ago.

[laurie91423]

Land line service? We ditched it about a year ago.

How do you have several phones around the house without a land line?

[deano_hoosier]

I have the Comcast triple play and wondered the same thing. I assumed the land line was really a VOIP service through the computer connection like Vonage is. But, the Comcast Digital Voice works like this:

Comcast supplies a modem that handles telephone connections. It is about the size of a small lunch box. The cable line plugs into it. Also plugging into it is the electrical connection through a small transformer at the electrical outlet. The neat trick is that a telephone wire/connection is plugged into the Comcast modem and then to the nearest phone outlet jack. Once the technician gets all the codes/setup completed you get a regular old dial tone on each phone that plugs into any of the phone outlet jacks in the house. Must drive AT&T crazy. Of course you also get the computer plugs at the modem as well.

You get unlimited local and nationwide calls and you also get a Comcast based answering service that kicks in anytime you don't respond to a call. We have an answering machine on the phone, itself so when it picks up, the Comcast answering process does not start. If, however, you are talking on your phone and receive a call the Comcast answering service will pick that call up.

The system supposedly works with a fax process, but don't know that from my own experience yet.

[memason]

We dumped our landline and monthly bill a long time ago too. With cell phones, we just couldn't see the need to have both. To be honest, it took an adjustment period, but not long. No more phones in every room and you need to keep the cell phone nearby.

As for faxing... I joke about the faxing, but it seems rare that I am asked to do that. Anytime we are asked to fax anything, we ask for an email address to email a scanned document. Depending on what we're "faxing", I feel better that it's going to someones inbox, rather than lying around on a semi-public fax machine in the hallway. We've not had a problem with this approach yet.

We started using Google Voice a couple months ago, so we never have to change our phone number(s) again, regardless of our "real" phone number(s).

[laurie91423]

I have the Comcast triple play and wondered the same thing. I assumed the land line was really a VOIP service through the computer connection like Vonage is. But, the Comcast Digital Voice works like this:

Comcast supplies a modem that handles telephone connections. It is about the size of a small lunch box. The cable line plugs into it. Also plugging into it is the electrical connection through a small transformer at the electrical outlet. The neat trick is that a telephone wire/connection is plugged into the Comcast modem and then to the nearest phone outlet jack. Once the technician gets all the codes/setup completed you get a regular old dial tone on each phone that plugs into any of the phone outlet jacks in the house. Must drive AT&T crazy. Of course you also get the computer plugs at the modem as well.

You get unlimited local and nationwide calls and you also get a Comcast based answering service that kicks in anytime you don't respond to a call. We have an answering machine on the phone, itself so when it picks up, the Comcast answering process does not start. If, however, you are talking on your phone and receive a call the Comcast answering service will pick that call up.

The system supposedly works with a fax process, but don't know that from my own experience yet.

And it works just like Comcast... the problem is that during the evening hours when there's heavy TV usage, the modem slows down. If my husband is on his laptop at the same time as I am, again the modem slow down. I also expected the price to be cheaper... but I was told that installation would be $20 for each TV site. They didn't charge me that in Los Angeles, for Heaven's sake! Sounds like highway robbery to me.

I thought I could come to Florida and have a reasonable cable/phone/wifi bill. What happened? :shrug:

[Pturner]

How do you have several phones around the house without a land line?

Hi Laurie,
We don't. I usually have my iPhone close at hand. If not, the worse that happens is I miss the call and have to return it. We love the savings and don't miss having a land line. Like Memason, we rarely need to fax anymore and when we do, we scan and email it.

[Shirleevee]

[QUOTE=laurie91423;281584]How do you have several phones around the house without a land line?[/QUOT

We have three telephones and they run off the Magic Jack......which we get great reception on. We also use our cell phones.:a040: