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I have done the math and figured out that we are paying $290 a year for Vonage and it works great for us. Add another $80 a year for tracfone cell service, and that is all we spend on phones for the year. I'm thinking of getting rid of vonage and just going with a $100/yr tracfone for DW and the same for me, putting total telecom costs at $200/yr instead of $370 currently (plus I'll have a full time usable cell phone).
But I also wonder about the downside of getting rid of the land line (vonage). Will we miss it? It is nice to have phone service everywhere in the house and not have to go looking for a cell phone. And there is a phone next to our bed for middle of the night emergencies (just in case!).
I'm thinking of getting skype or magicjack as a cheap way to make/receive phone calls if we need to call the bank or credit card or insurance company and wait on hold for an hour (and not pay $$ for our prepaid minutes on cell phone). Does anyone have recent experience with skype or magicjack sufficient to provide a recommendation for or against either one?
I'm also wondering if I'm going to too much trouble to save $170 a year on already low telecom costs. Paralysis by analysis??
FYI, I went through the vonage bills for the last year and we used 197 minutes per month on average, approx 1/2 of those to 1 800 numbers that are free with skype I think.
But I also wonder about the downside of getting rid of the land line (vonage). Will we miss it? It is nice to have phone service everywhere in the house and not have to go looking for a cell phone. And there is a phone next to our bed for middle of the night emergencies (just in case!).
I'm thinking of getting skype or magicjack as a cheap way to make/receive phone calls if we need to call the bank or credit card or insurance company and wait on hold for an hour (and not pay $$ for our prepaid minutes on cell phone). Does anyone have recent experience with skype or magicjack sufficient to provide a recommendation for or against either one?
I'm also wondering if I'm going to too much trouble to save $170 a year on already low telecom costs. Paralysis by analysis??
FYI, I went through the vonage bills for the last year and we used 197 minutes per month on average, approx 1/2 of those to 1 800 numbers that are free with skype I think.