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I hear that there are several compromises with an internet phone 
service. One is that "local" 911 service may not work. Also, that if the 
power goes off, so does your phone service. And to make it economical, 
one should be averaging a large long distance phone bill. The 
recommendation I heard is to maintain one minimal conventional phone in 
addition to the internet phone.

-Mark

Western Canada CORSA wrote:

>For those of you baulking at the cost of high speed interenet, there is one
>other thing you might want to consider that may mitigate some of the
>additional cost.  New VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) replaces your
>regular local and long distance phone by utilizing a high speed internet
>connection.   For example, my current local and long distance combined phone
>bill is $57 per month, and this only gives me off hours unlimited Canadian
>long distance.  With VOIP I'll be paying $29.99 per month and I'll have
>unlimited North American Long Distance.  The $29.99 price is also the
>premium package that includes 8 features (Caller ID, Call Waiting etc) I
>could opt for a different program that starts as low as $15.98 per month.
>If you're interested make sure you do some research on the quality of the
>connection each company offers and whether or not they offer 911 service, as
>some don't.  One other interesting feature available with VOIP is that you
>can take your "Gateway" to another location (say to a cottage, or a long
>term vacation) and when wired into a high speed connection wherever you are
>your phone will ring like it's back at it's home location and you can make
>calls to your "local" area, even though you may be in Italy.
>
>Sorry for the off topic post, but I thought this might be useful to some
>folks.
>
>Regards,
>Joel
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