Dumping landline, Comcast, how to forward?

[495neighbor]

Thanks everyone for the advice on this. Looked into all the suggestions and decided to go cold turkey on the landline. Since so few people contact me on it other than spam callers, just discontinued the service.

[SpringMom3]

Originally Posted by 495neighbor

Thanks everyone for the advice on this. Looked into all the suggestions and decided to go cold turkey on the landline. Since so few people contact me on it other than spam callers, just discontinued the service.

I think that's a good idea too!

I have a landline for work because if the internet goes out, I still need a line to take conf calls- i'd be in trouble without both internet and phone. I'd love to cut that landline bill!

[brent s]

Originally Posted by wolfgang239

How important is your Google Voice #? I would port my landline to a $9.99 ATT GoPhone burner and then port that to your Google Voice.

You can't port a landline to Google (last I knew), thus the extra step of porting it to a cell first. Nobody knows my Google Voice number, and even if they did they would call my normal cell #.

Originally Posted by wolfgang239

If you wanted to you could also get an Obi VoIP bridge at home and set it up with your Google Voice number. Your house phone/cell phones/tablet etc. would all ring when someone called the number. I would definitely do this if I still had all the infrastructure in place at home for landlines instead of plastering over them.

I did exactly this a while back. Works flawlessly connected to the phone line in the house. I do pay the small yearly fee for an E-911 service since we leave the kids with babysitters from time to time and they may not remember our address in an emergency.