pandoraPremium
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Outland
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Re: [Femtocell] The Beginning of the End of Residential VOIP It depends on how you approach it. If you want to dedicate a cell phone from a family plan to be your permanent home phone, nothing stops you.
At the same time, taking the home number with you when traveling could be a benefit for some.
This technology has potential to challenge traditional VOIP.
The Sprint cost for an extra line on a voice plan is $10, the cost for the device for one line per month is $15.
Would you pay $25 a month for unlimited phone service provided by a large national phone company? Some will, some won't.
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nitzanPremium,VIP
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kudos:2 | said by pandora:It depends on how you approach it. If you want to dedicate a cell phone from a family plan to be your permanent home phone, nothing stops you. At the same time, taking the home number with you when traveling could be a benefit for some. Dedicating one phone to be the "home phone" kinda defeats the purpose though, no? If today you can use POTS or VoIP with one base and 3,4 or even 8 handsets - in a cell-is-the-home-phone situation you're limited to one handset.
Taking the home phone with you is a great idea in theory - but what if you travel on business and your wife or roommates stay home? one of you gets the home phone - the other doesn't.
With VoIP it's possible (and easy) to take an ATA with you and ring both locations at the same time.
I think in a way if you want home phone service - femtocells is not going to work well. If you want personal service - i.e. each member of the family has their own phone and there is no centralized "home phone" - then femtocells will work.
But who knows.. maybe the boys up at VZ have already thought of these things and solutions to them. But then again- wouldn't this compete with their land line and VoIP business? 
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pandoraPremium
join:2001-06-01
Outland
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·ooma
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·Future Nine Corp..
·Comcast
1 edit | You aren't limited to one handset if it is driving your home wired analog phones. That handset becomes your access point for the entire home.
Some cell phone companies will be concerned about the potential for this competing with land line business, others won't.
It seems as if $25-35 a month is the high price point for unlimited calling via VOIP or alternatives such as Femtocell.
In my case, I've got a nice price from Future-Nine and great VOIP service at a bit over $11 per month. That is tough to beat, even for Sprint.
Now, if I call Sprint retentions and complain about poor signal strength, and they offer me a free Femtocell ... that could change the game a bit.
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nitzanPremium,VIP
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kudos:2 | said by pandora:It seems as if $25-35 a month is the high price point for unlimited calling via VOIP or alternatives such as Femtocell. Vonage, Packet 8, and basically any VSP that's been concentrating on brand at higher prices is probably going to see some line loss out of this (although this by itself won't kill them).
Smaller providers are probably not going to be affected too much. BYOD crowd is not likely to throw away their adapters anytime soon, and like you said - even with femtocells it's hard to beat $11 a month. 
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 tommy13vPremium
join:2002-02-15
Niskayuna NY | reply to pandora
I complained to retentions and received the equipment and service for free. They also threw in 3 months of unlimited calling, after that it would be just a repeater unless I wanted to pay $15 a month for service. |
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ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC Reviews:
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said by nitzan:Taking the home phone with you is a great idea in theory - but what if you travel on business and your wife or roommates stay home? one of you gets the home phone - the other doesn't. I do just that. I have configured my Packet8 account to ring my home phone and cell phone at the same time when someone dials my home phone number.
Works like a champ. Never miss calls.
And I agree that I think it's a little early to call the death of VoIP on this technology. After all, if the signal to this device sucks, it still is going to suck when you're using your phone. |
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I have configured my Packet8 account to ring my home phone and cell phone at the same time when someone dials my home phone number.
Does anything "bad" happen if the cell phone happens to be out-of-range, or turned off when there is an incoming call?
I don't know anything about voip and cell phones, is why I ask. Your arrangement sounds great to me. |
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 RockyBBPremium
join:2005-01-31
Steamboat Springs, CO | said by oddgeezer:Does anything "bad" happen if the cell phone happens to be out-of-range, or turned off when there is an incoming call? Those are two different circumstances. If the phone is off, then the voice mail on the cell will take the call, and the other phones in the simul-ring will stop ringing...this effect is neutralized if the receipient is required to press a button (typically 1) to take the call. If the phone is out of range, then there is no impact to the other phones. |
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