| Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net>: Nov 05 06:09AM -0800 On Monday, November 4, 2019 at 3:17:29 PM UTC-5, tb wrote: > I don't want to get a telephone landline (copper wires)! > I want to subscribe to Spectrum's Voice Plan. (I don't know if it is > VOIP, or what). It is VOIP. > Is that the same with a VOIP (or whatever Spectrum offers!) phone plan? > -- > tb Already answered. You have two alternatives: 1 - Use a calling card for intnl 2 - Get Spectrum internet, but not phone service and use another VOIP provider. I use Ooma, just $5 a month, plus whatever they charge for intnl. You buy the Ooma VOIP box for about $50. You could check out the various other VOIP providers and see what the rates are for the countries of interest. |
| "tb" <nospam@example.invalid>: Nov 05 02:36PM On 11/4/2019 at 5:06:25 PM catalpa wrote: > > VOIP, or what). > > Spectrum offers what they call Spectrum Voice International Calling > > Plan <https://www.spectrum.net/support/voice/countries-included-spectrum-voice-international-calling-plan/> > You need to educate yourself about VOIP. Your choosen VOIP is your > long-distance provider by default. > If you don't like Spectrum Voice just use Google Voice. Yes, but does VOIP preclude me from searching for another long distance provider? That is what I do not understand. I readily admit that I am old and not a techie so my question might not make much sense... I could use a calling card as suggested by Whoey Louie or Google Voice as you suggest. But I am just curious to know about long distance providers and VOIP. Another question: Using Google Voice does not imply that I need to get a VOIP line from somebody else, like Spectrum? -- tb |
| bje@ripco.com: Nov 05 06:35PM > Yes, but does VOIP preclude me from searching for another long distance > provider? That is what I do not understand. I readily admit that I am > old and not a techie so my question might not make much sense... THERE IS NO LONG DISTANT PROVIDER INVOLVED. Understand that fact. It's all done over the internet. You pay Spectrum $34.95 or whatever they want per month and it doesn't matter if you call your next door neighbor 10 times a day or make a 10 hour call to your old high school buddy that moved to alaska, it is just the $34.95 a month. Long distance or local, it's all the same thing on those services. -bruce bje@ripco.com |
| "tb" <nospam@example.invalid>: Nov 05 09:11PM > Long distance or local, it's all the same thing on those services. > -bruce > bje@ripco.com Yes, I can see how there would be no long distance provider if the calls are made between VoIP devices. But what about if a VoIP device calls a landline in another county or state? There must be somebody (a long distance provider, for instance) who provides public switched telephone network translation. That must be incurring some charges from a phone operator. Right? -- tb |
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