Thinking about dumping the old Verizon landline. Last straw (after determining that more than half our incoming calls are spam) is that they need to upgrade us to Fiber Optic or our phone will be shut off. And I need to take a half day off to let them do this.
Concerns:
1) we like that a landline works in a power failure. We were without power for 3+ days last year but our phone never stopped working
2) we need to be reachable if an elderly parent has a middle of the night emergency. We could charge our cells upstairs but fear forgetting them there during the day (right now they charge by the front door), plus the many other sounds they make all night could be disturbing .
Possible solution: we have Comcast Triple Play, with a rarely used VOIP phone hooked up to it. I googled and could not determine if you can easily add extensions to a Comcast VOIP phone . If that is doable, I think we have a solution, except for the power failure issue.
Appreciate the expertise.
Concerns:
1) we like that a landline works in a power failure. We were without power for 3+ days last year but our phone never stopped working
2) we need to be reachable if an elderly parent has a middle of the night emergency. We could charge our cells upstairs but fear forgetting them there during the day (right now they charge by the front door), plus the many other sounds they make all night could be disturbing .
Possible solution: we have Comcast Triple Play, with a rarely used VOIP phone hooked up to it. I googled and could not determine if you can easily add extensions to a Comcast VOIP phone . If that is doable, I think we have a solution, except for the power failure issue.
Appreciate the expertise.