Am I the only one who thinks this is very very expensive? I use an Italian VoIP provider. The rates for international calls are very similar, but I don't have to pay a monthly fee. So I end up charging 6 euros every 4-5 months.
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#123Apparently no one actually fucking read the page. > ON-THE-GO >Get calls on your mobile phone. Stay connected no matter where you are. Have Fiber Phone ring your landline when you're home or your mobile when you're onthe-go. This isn't about landlines at all.
My Nokia 208 dumbphone supports SIP over 3G, how is this new?
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#124A landline phone service seems a bit anachronistic, but there is a place for it. The future of telephony is here, but it sucks. Many here on HN probably don't even remember this, but phone calls actually used to be intelligible. Before cell phones and VOIP, before packet-switching and aggressive digital compression, calls traveled over Ma Bell's glorious circuit-switched network. You could actually understand what pe…
You still can. My grandma phone, whith the dialing wheel and twisted wire, still works in France. And the sound is much, much better than on my 4G smartphone.
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#125A landline phone service seems a bit anachronistic, but there is a place for it. The future of telephony is here, but it sucks. Many here on HN probably don't even remember this, but phone calls actually used to be intelligible. Before cell phones and VOIP, before packet-switching and aggressive digital compression, calls traveled over Ma Bell's glorious circuit-switched network. You could actually understand what pe…
I'm more than olde enough to remember, but, actually, I've found call quality to be substantially better since all-digital was the norm, with the exception being when one endpoint or the other is doing something weird. What I remember from the days you are romanticizing is a palpable reduction in quality for long-distance calls, with even local calls having, often, worse quality than most calls do now.
Nope. We still have old-school landline here (they won't be terminated for a few years yet). I just did a test, and the difference is huge. Landline 1 - Smartphone 0.
Also the landline works even when the power line shut down, because it has it's own seperate power network.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could also have a conversation in real time, and not delayed by a second. Cell phone delay has made it impossible for me to carry on a meaningful conversation with anyone. There's also value in having a phone number for a house or a family, separate from phone numbers of individual people. I don't want my utility company or my cable company having my cell number. But I'm not the only person that can make decision…
This is why I keep a voip line as a home phone, with voicemails being forwarded to both myself and the wife. Very few select people get our actual cell numbers. All businesses, etc just get the home line number.
Exactly! We've got kids and our local school district likes to send robo-calls to remind people of events. Also the dentists and doctors are calling the day before with a reminder and that's automated for 2 out of 3 (dentist and doctor yes, orthodontist (ouch), no).
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#128A landline phone service seems a bit anachronistic, but there is a place for it. The future of telephony is here, but it sucks. Many here on HN probably don't even remember this, but phone calls actually used to be intelligible. Before cell phones and VOIP, before packet-switching and aggressive digital compression, calls traveled over Ma Bell's glorious circuit-switched network. You could actually understand what pe…
I was just in Australia and was blown away at the great quality of cellular phone calls. I thought I was on Viber.
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#129Or the hacker's solution to maintaining a landline: get yourself a cheap SIP-capable handset and an account with a wholesale SIP-trunking provider like Flowroute ($1.25/mo for the number, $.0098/min outbound to CONUS, $.012/min inbound). Proxy through OpenVBX or Asterisk (can be hosted in the cloud or in your home) if you want to get fancy with voicemail, IVR menus, forwarding, extensions for different rooms in the h…
At least on some Android phones, you can add a SIP account directly. That might be your cheapest-available handset.
Mine warns that more battery is consumed if receiving calls is enabled, but I only use it for making particular international calls.
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I believe apple has supported this with the iPhone for several years now.
As has Android, but AT&T and Verizon tend to lock out features like HD Voice and Wifi Calling to be iPhone only.
T-Mobile is what I have. I think they were the first?
But it sounds great on T-Mobile. I usually just talk to the wife both of us on iPhones and T-Mobile. And then I get the occasional call from someone else and I am like "What the !@# get a decent connection/phone/whatever!"