Choosing a telephone system.

When it came to choosing a telephone system, we basically had three choices. We could go with a regular land line, a cell phone or Voice over IP (VoIP). I started calling Telus in May to find out what it would take to get service to our new house. The said they would have to send a rep out. They gave us a date the rep would be there and said we had to be at the site from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. We spent the whole day waiting for the rep to show up, but no one ever did. When I called Telus to complain, they gave me some excuse and set another date. This happened 3-4 times before a rep finally showed up in August or Sept. He said it would cost about $1, 000 to get the phone line to the house and that they might not be able to do it before freeze up. That meant we would have to wait until spring to get a Telus land line! The second option was to go with a cell phone, but I do not like the fact that you are locked into a contract for a certain time period and I do not like being exposed to the radio frequencies all the time. So, I started investigating Voice over IP. My neighbor said that they had their VoIP phone with Vonage. After doing some investigation, we decided to go with Vonage. We contacted them and in a very short time, we received the the Vonage device pictured in this picture in the mail. All we had to do was to plug the Vonage device into our router and plug our phone into the device. Bingo! we had a phone!! It was that easy. Now, granted VOIP has its drawbacks, but for the most part it works for us. No more long distance charges! North America is my local calling area. And it only costs about $20 per month.