i have vonage and i love it. I have never had to make a 911 call but they
make sure now when you sign up that you know that it isn't the standard 911,
it goes to the nearest response center or whatever so you need to have your
address updated but for about $25 or something around there, I decided not
to even bother with a regular phone line because with the unlimited plan,
you do get free long distance
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: very off topic
> With Voicewing you can call 911, you just have to register it when you
> sign
> up so they have your address, and as far as losing the phone when you lose
> power, that's true but you can set it to automatically forward the calls
> to
> your cell phone or what ever if you lose power. Since it works over the
> internet, you can't really get around that unless you put a backup battery
> on your internet stuff, router, cable modem, and the phone adapter, but
> personally, with my 12 calls a year, I don't miss anything by not having
> it
> for an hour or 2. The important people that might call in an emergency
> have
> my cell number anyway so for me, it works fine. I'm sure if you put a UPS
> or
> something on the cable modem or dsl, router, and phone adapter only, it
> would last through most power outages easy but mine is not worth that. If
> I
> lived on my own and that was my only phone, I'd do it but as often as we
> lose power too around here, we probably lost standard phone more. I think
> we've lost power here twice in the last 4 years and it was all less than
> an
> hour.Mostly at night.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harvey" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: very off topic
>
>
>>I have been told that a disadvantage to Vontage and other services like it
>> is that you can't call 911 using that service, and also, when you lose
>> electricity, you also lose your phone service. Maybe these drawbacks
>> have
>> now been corrected I don't know.
>> Harvey
>>
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