VoIP and me
From Macworld
By Scholle Sawyer McFarland
November 16, 2005
When I edited an article about a new-fangled service that let you talk over the Internet in the fall of 2004, I never imagined that a year later I’d being living without a landline.
What tipped the scales for us—besides a general hatred of our phone company—was price. Before I switched to VoIP, my business line cost $40 per month, not including long distance. My VoIP line from Speakeasy costs $28 a month and includes unlimited long-distance calling. We have three phone lines in our house. It’s not hard to do the math. (Of course, we already paid for DSL, so that wasn’t part of our equation.)
Going digital also meant lots of new bells and whistles. My old-fashioned cordless phone doesn’t have a voice mail light on it, which means I never have a clue whether or not I’ve received messages. How nice, then, that I can set up my VoIP service to e-mail me when calls come in… and even send me a .wav file of the message itself (pictured below).