Being that I am expense conscious and do like reliable products and services.
Having a phone for family use is great......having and supplying a phone to allow me to be barraged with politicians, scammers, and surveys are down right annoying.
Originally I had a plain jane Telus land line.
Telus supplies the power
Local calling.
I think I had a small 911 fee.
My Panasonic land line provides power to the base station in the event of a power outage.
Blocking calls is based on the Panasonic hand set and can only do 50.
Telus, I believe has an option...not sure if costs more....not sure if you can review what you block.
If we move.....reinstall becomes a task and an appointment to keep.
Then moved to voip.ms.
The reason voip.ms.....you can program lots of variations......blocking was unlimited and can be viewed.
had to pay a monthly 911 fee.
Lots of other options to choose or control.
Was 1/2 the cost of Telus.
No internet...no phone.
No power...no phone.
Canada and USA Wide calling.
If we move.....reinstall is easy and same number.
We had all inbound calls directed to voip box and both of our PM cell phones.
It was very good until a DDOS attack took us out of service for 2 weeks.
Then ported land line number to a PM $15 plan. And bought a ZTE box.
Cost is same as voip. And WILL go lower.
Power outage today....ZTE and Panasonic land line both have battery backup.
Wow it was seamless!
Manual call forwarding has been used and is not difficult to use.
Blocking is back to the 50 on the Panasonic hand set. And can view...but is not nice.
Canada Wide calling.
No 911 fee.
If we move.....reinstall is easy and same number. SIM can be slipped into a spare phone too.
If I moved to a newer link2cell Panasonic I would need another phone and drop the ZTE BOX. And would block and set DND on cell phone but still be able to make and receive calls on the Panasonic hand sets.
Both options don’t need a wire connection or wifi. Just totally dependent on the Telus mobile network.
