Going Totally Wireless (no more home phone)

Kevin,

I've heard alot of talk about this topic and I've always been skeptical about a wireless only environment, mostly in the investment community when discussing certain companies. I never thought about it to the detail you have outlined with the need for multiple handsets and no service at the home. The next time I'm in those type of discussions I will have to remember to counter with that. We have moved to a more wireless era but I don't see in the near future the extinction of landline phones.

Tom

 

An all wireless community could be possible in the future but its too early to say these plans are giving more and more minutes every day and are making them very intricate to a users needs. Its kind of like making everyone accustomed to satelite TV which is a great thing but a little expensive right now compared to cable. The thing is these company all have to improve there cell towers for the upbringing of more and more usage which is quickly getting worse. The idea of a whole family having a phone is not to far off except that companys are coming up with family plans left and right and they are getting lower in cost each year right now VS offers over here a 69.99 family plan for 2 users and a 10 dollar option to add users on. the plan includes 800 shared minutes unlimited weekends and unlimited phone to phone for any vs phone. which is good for now i switched my younger brother who is about 16 right now to this plan with my parents it seems to work good only if your whole family and friends subscribe to one carrier, but that is not so in most cases now. ATT and Verizon I believe are doing the same things as well but 800 minutes shared still is not that much between say a household of five who have to call to other places that are not wired buy VS (SCHOOLS, JOBS, etc.)I think we have a while before everything is wireless. Right now its just a tool for emergency.

CellguyNY

 

I would love to go to wireless only. We have four people in our house, all have cell phones. The problem is we live right at the base of a mountain pass and our cell phones don't work at our house. So, we have four cells and four landlines. Way too many phones! If anyone has information as to how we could get better wireless reception please let me know.

 

Do you all use the same carrier? If so then maybe you should check out another one, its always possible one couldn't pick up at your house and another one could. Although I will admit that sounds like a tough place to cover so its possible no carrier will pick up a signal there.

 

I did it and I figured this way I would be stopping the non sense poll calls during the election, telemarketing crap and anyone else that didn't know me would be unable to contact me. I now have my privacy again (to a point)!!!

It saves us, my wife 2 kids and me over $50 a month for basic service. Who really called us........nobody that didn't already have out cell phone numbers.

They had a statistic come out a little over a year ago about St. Louis, MO. They said of all the cell phone customers in the St Louis region, there were more cell phone numbers than there were land lines. People were cutting off their land lines and just using their cells for the same purpose.

 

Wow, I think this wins the award for the oldest thread reincarnation.

Watch out though, they are talking about sending SMS to people for election campaigns now & they said it's not considered illegal. (I sure hope they don't, who's going to pay for the charges as well as I don't want any calls or SMS from any politician.)

 

I guess going totally wireless is just a matter of getting onto a good 3g wireless network and you do not need any wires in your house...

 

I still get those calls on my wireless phone.

Yeah, I think you may be right... probably the result of a Google search or something.

 

I very rarely get marketing calls on my cell phone, maybe 3 or 4 a year. I always ask to be removed from the list before hanging up.

-Jay

 

Knock on wood- i have never recieved a telemarketing call on my cell phones.

 

I'm on the do not call list but that doesn't stop the Police Athletic League or those stupid recorded political dialer calls. Last year in late October and November I'd wake up with 3-4 new voicemails a day. One morning I had messages from George Bush, John McCain and some local politicos. Good times!:browani:

 

I have never gotten a political call on my cell, and only on extreme rare occasions do I get telemarketing calls. I always make a point to get the call center's name and ask to be removed from their list whenever I do get a call though.

-Jay

 

it is also aganst the law for marketers to call a cell phone to start with. but i still have all the ones on the family plan on the don not call list

 

Yeah, my cell numbers are on the Do Not Call list as well.

-Jay

 

But if you put your wireless # on any forms, especially the online ones, it gives that company & if they have it in their small T&C's others the right to call your # whether or not it's a wireless one.

You have to be careful with these & if they call you have to ask them to remove you from their list.

 

I am 100% wireless for my business. I have a 3G card supplying the service for my laptop which has a Cisco soft phone client for my corporate VOIP system. My fax is through our central server, and my all in one printer has a built in 802.11g NIC which connects to my laptop wherever I am in my home.

All voice, through the mobile. All data, through the mobile. I am sure it may be a little more expensive in the long run, but I will leave that to our CFO. It is the approved set up for my home office. :browani:

I won't address how I handle the more sensitive communications required for my job. Let's just say they don't occur from my home office.

 

How do they ever find these threads is my question....:lmao:

 

Its gotta be Google. I noticed on another forum that I frequent that when you try to post to an old thread a message pops up... "The thread you are posting to has had no activity for at least 60 days. Are you sure you want to post to this thread, or do you wish to create a new thread?" I've been saying for a while that we need something like that so these people know they are posting to old threads.

-Jay

 

i am totaly wireless with 4 phones me my wife and 2 kids we are with suncom and we are unlimited minuites ,i also have my wireless internet with them .this has been the situation with my family for 3 years now and it works fine and with unlimited i know exactly what my bill is every month ,it runs 210 a month and thats not too bad for 4 lines and internet unlimited ,but i went in the suncom store about 4 months ago for something and we were looking at my bill and the store manager said if my internet wasn' unlimited that my bill would of been a million dollars {LOL} going by the data that i used as i have 3 computers running off of 1 card.

 

You have 3 computers running off one data card? Wow. Does Suncom provide high speed internet access (3g) or is it EDGE?

 

I would like to know how the voip cisco sof phone works and how do you install and configure it and also where do you get a phone number from and how much data does it use like say a 5 minuite call ,if you don't mind please fill me in on these things .
Thanks lovemussel

 

yes they have edge broadband unlimitted and it is 49$ a month ,they just updated their data system and made it faster also we are never on all 3 computers at 1 time at the most 2 and it does well with them surfing and even streaming video.

 

My corporate phones are Cisco enterprtise VOIP, so with the soft client on my laptop, I have a corporate VOIP phone anytime I have internet access and a VPN tunnel to our network. It is just like I am sitting at my desk only using a software client instead of a hardware handset.

Skype has something similar that you could use at WiFi hotspots (that what I do when traveling internationally for voice calls).

 

How many MB you use per month? I just hope that Suncom doesn't decide to impose a cap on your so called "unlimited" plan like Verizon did.