Comments on: Do You Need A Dedicated Phone Line for Your House?

By: 9-1-1

9-1-1 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:51:19 +0000

Don’t forget that cellphones don’t provide 911 centers with your location. And the GPS information they do provide usually isnt accurate enough to actually find you. So if you need emergency help you need to be prepared to give your address. If for some reason you are unable to talk good luck with being found. it will probably take at least 10-15 minutes to find out your billing address from your cellphone company. Also cell phone calls can be routed to the incorrect agency depending on the geography of where you live.

By: Mr. Long Distance

Mr. Long Distance — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:11:05 +0000

Having two communication lines (home phone and a cellphone) doesn’t matter exactly. They both can be used when placing international calls. The worry on the cost of rate actually is not an issue anymore. As this service is rechargeable online via credit cards, you can call internationally at any phones! No worries on the cost as all its domestic and international calls are at its cheapest.

By: brian.carr

brian.carr — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:19:16 +0000

Good question. I guess there are several things you could do:

1. Change your cell phone number to reflect the local area code. This can be done by simply calling your cell phone provider and asking them to change your number. Because they don’t do anything for free, you’ll probably be charged a service fee.

This plan could be a hassle if you are frequently changing numbers because you’ll have to always let people know of the change in your cell phone number.

2. Just stick with your old cell phone number and ditch the house line. Since most people have cell phones anyway, and most plans have free long distance, it shouldn’t be much of a problem for people to get a hold of you.

This could be a hassle if a school or office is trying to reach you and they don’t particularly feel like picking up long distance charges for a phone call that really shouldn’t be long distance.

3. Investigate whether or not there are any pre-paid cell services that are less expensive than the $18 you’re currently paying and just get a local phone number for the pre-paid line. This option seems rather unlikely, but is worth investigating.

4. Stick with what you’re currently doing. If it’s not a a financial burden to have the house line, and you like having a local number where people can reach you at, then by all means, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Not sure if this helps, but hopefully it’ll give you a couple of ideas to kick around.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:03:56 +0000

So… what if you have an out-of-state # on your cell phone? What you do then? We have the most basic phone line for $18/a month (used to be 13 but for somereason the price has gone up). We do this for the locals since we move so much. What would you do? Thanks