That's why I went to the VOIP line for my "regular phones" around my house, and kept my old number. I had to pay over $60/mo for crappy phone serviice, no web features and no long distance. The $14.95/mo service from Phonepower has unlimited national plus some international and great web access features. I disconnected the local lines outside and plugged my router in a phone jack so now all phones work well and have 911, etc. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Yaron > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 9:43 PM > To: TCLUG > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Ditching the land line > > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Matthew Junk wrote: > > > You can get a "basic phone line" through Century Link for I > believe $15.99. > > I recently canceled my DSL and was shocked to see Centurylink were still > charging me $50 a month. Almost HALF of which was "taxes" and > "surcharges". > > They would NOT drop THEIR part of the price though. At all. When I told > them it's ridiculous for me to pay that much for a line I really > only keep > for legacy purposes and hardly ever use, the guy said "Yeah, I'd cancel > that too." > > So I did. > > > -Yaron > > --