It appears that Mike Rudko <
rudkomike.remove-this@gmail.com> said:
What's the best home voip provider?
I'm ready 2 bail from my LEC.
This is sort of like asking what's the best restaurant. What do you want?
Here's some clues you might give us:
- What kind of broadband do you have (if it's cable, cableco phone service
is usually pretty good and the quality will be better than VoIP because
it has dedicated bandwidth)
- Do you want a provider that offers a complete package including the terminal adapter or VoIP phone
- Or do you have your own VoIP phone or terminal adapter, or are you
willing to get one? Used Linksys adapters are about $40 on eBay
= Do you care about call processing features, e.g., calls from certain
numbers ring differently or go directly to voicemail
- Do you make a lot of phone calls or would you be OK with a cheaper
barebones plan where each call costs a few cents?
I've been happy with Callcentric which is inexpensive, reliable, but very unbundled. You have to get your own hardware and configure it which is
easy if you're used to doing it, potentially painful otherwise.
R's,
John
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