Familiar Face
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Joined: Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:40 pm
Location: near the Rubicon trail - U.S.A.
Cheap cellphone service $3/mo. and alternative to dial-tone
But sometimes a fixed telephone is needed to reach loved ones at home that don't have a mobile phone (kids, grandparents, etc..), Or don't always carry them.
I once paid over $25 a month with taxes etc. for that old landline and still have the plug in the jack phones....
Well with a old cellphone with charger and a Bluetooth to Telephone RJ-11 adapter the old house phones are alive for $3 a month
Here's the deal T-Mobile offers a plan if you look incredibly hard for that gives you 30 Minutes or 30 Texts for $3/Month and if you go over its 10 cents a minute if you prepay the minutes...
Since it will be an Emergency Phone only 30 minutes is plenty, most calls would be hey I can't reach you on your cell, Call me back on it....
For a BTTN (BlueTooth Telephone Network) I am using a Gigaset One easily found on e-bay for cheap.
I just unplugged the service line from the old landline box on side of house to disconnect there wires from my house wiring ( !! Very Important !! )
Then plugged in the Gigaset One anywhere there is a free phone jack in house that also get good cellular signal, and that is it Dial Tone for those old fashioned landline phones
With T-Mobiles new push to expand I get there service at my home now, just a few years ago the coverage sucked and now it rivals AT&T & Verizon