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txglock21 wrote:Just last week at work we took a poll on how many people there no longer have a "home phone". It was about 75% only have cell phones and don't have a home phone. I was stunned by this. After thinking about it for a while, it kind of made sense because nobody actually calls our home phone other than unwanted calls. My household will continue to have a home phone due to the fact that my wife works from home and uses it daily for work calls and faxes. I hate talking on any phone, but have to for work. I do enjoy a few games on mine though.

The Annoyed Man wrote:BTW, I ported my landline number over to my RingCentral VOIP service. It cut my Verizon bill by roughly $100/month, and that pays for the RingCentral service with $50/month left over. With RingCentral, I get my business number and a fax number, in addition to my landline number, with a lot of automated features. When I answer a VOIP call or make one using my cellphone, the party on the other end sees my business number, not my cellphone number. We screen all incoming calls to our old landline number. If I pick it up, the caller will see my landline number and not my cellphone number. If I get annoying sales calls from the same number, I can set up the system to block all calls from that number. Etc., etc., etc.........and I can do this from my cellphone and don't have to be in my home/office to do it.