VOIP phone service
Recently (read it here) I blogged about Phone Power and my difficulties on getting their service working.
While looking for an alternative I found out that Qwest is now offering VOIP service for $19.99 a month. It also gives you unlimited local and long distance calling, and you can choose an area code in any area code that they provide in their service areas.
The main two reasons I want a solution like this is because I want unlimited out of area calling to be able to talk to most of the people I know in AZ who are out of area to me, and for my mother to be able to call me in an emergency. This lets me get an areacode identical to her, allow her to call me with a local call, and allows me to call her and my friends with no LD costs.
Sure, I could get unlimited LD calling for $20 a month, but that doesnt solve the inbound calling issue... this does.
I got the Qwest device last week, plugged it in, and it just worked. Easy peasy.. unlike certain other (Phone Power *cough* *cough*) providers... setup was a snap... literally just plug it in and it worked.
If you are interested in checking out Qwests VOIP offering, you can read more about it here: http://www.qwest.com/residential/products/voip/
