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John H[_2_]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:24:26 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:43:35 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!

Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number.

I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and
set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as
good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I
subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls
from my cellphone.

I use VoIP several years ago for a while. Didn't like it. Too much static or dropped calls or other
screwy stuff. I do use Skype for calls to a land line at my friend's house in Holland. Costs all of
$.02/minute, and the sound has always been spectacular.

I might think of dumping the POTS if it would save me any money. As
long as I have DSL it is just bundled in the package and there is no
money to be had in dropping it. I do get a big suite of extra services
but I only use a couple. Caller ID on my TV is cool. I use the
conference call deal now and then.

We have caller ID on the TV, but it is not as good as the caller ID on the Panasonic. The TV will
often say 'Virginia Cellphone' whereas the handset will ID the name of the caller.