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Originally Posted by Vapors
I have had VOIP for well over a year now. Overall I am very satisfied with it. I have AT&T's Callvantage. I love being able to sent some callers directly to voice mail or block them entirely. It's great for telemarketers who call several times a week.
The only downside is your cable goes down more often than your landline service. So we do sometimes not have phone service for a few hours. But that's pretty rare.
I pay around $38 (that includes all taxes/fees)a month for unlimited local and long distance with call blocking turned on. You can find it cheaper now, but I can't stand to give up my call blocking.
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I have also been on VOIP for over a year, paying less than $20 a month. I wouldn't go back to a traditional land line.
I would say that the speed (throughput) of your broadband access and quality of your ISP is important. I would not go VOIP with most of the "lite" broadband services.
I have only been without service twice, that I know of, in the past year due to a cable service outage. Once was brief and once was longer, though still only a couple of hours. I actually had more outages with my old land line service.