If possible, keep the cell phone and lose the land line.

IMO: When it comes to home phone service, the land-line phone companies are
a complete rip-off and are doomed unless they change their ways.  Long
distance is one example of their archaic thinking.  All the non-traditional
phone companies include unlimited long distance and unless the Bells, etc.
get unboard, they will continue to lose customers.

If I could figure out a way to drop my business service with the Bells, I
would do it in a heartbeat.  I already use my cell phone for national long
distance and I use Skype for international calls to my Vanagon vendors in
Europe (Vanagon related content).  Not a hard decision, it's included with
my cell service and only .02/minute with Skype.

Bury the Bells!  They're as bad as the oil companies when it comes to
squeezing the last penny...

Cheers & GO CHARGERS!!!!

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Mike S
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:21 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [NVC] Best Internet Telephony

At 07:52 PM 1/12/2007, Gary McEachern wrote...
>I can configure this
>service so when my internet goes down calls are automatically routed
>to my cell phone.
>
>On 1/12/07, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>>Don't give up your primary phone if phone service is critical

As I said - don't give up a primary phone through a *LEC/cell carrier.
You kept cell service. Like I often tell people - phone calls are often
made to report a network outage, I've never heard of anyone sending an
email to report their phone service is down. The mere fact that such
backup routing is available is a clear indication that Vonage
recognizes the inherent problem.