[138191] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [v6z] Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Mon Feb 28 20:20:23 2011
In-Reply-To: <201102282300.p1SN0vhJ064805@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:20:18 -0800
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> In my neck of the woods, you can get a basic POTS line for $15/month if
> it's important to you, local calls billed by the number of calls and the
> normal LD charges. Add a basic DSL service to that ($20) AND add a basic
> unlimited VoIP service to that ($20) and suddenly you have the benefits
> of POTS for emergencies *plus* Internet connectivity *plus* unlimited
> worldwide calling for ~$60/month
>
Or just move to California, order residential dry-loop DSL from AT&T (not
sure about via resellers) and they are required by law to give you dial-tone
and access to 911.
$20/month for the DSL, $0/month for the VOIP (via Google Voice and Asterisk)
and you've got the best of all worlds.
Scott.
