Cheap Home Phone Service

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Do you have cheap home phone service at your house? If not, you may want to reconsider where you are getting your home phone service, and switch over to an internet phone provider. Internet phone, also known as VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is fast replacing the old fashioned "phone company" and soon, all home phone service will be carried via VoIP.

The great thing about VoIP is that it truly represents an option for very cheap home phone option (call it "affordable" if you don't like the word "cheap"...) It can completely replace your landline phone, and plans begin at .95 a month for unlimited local and long distance. International calling rates can be as low as 1 cent per minute. VoIP long distance rates are uniformly lower than traditional phone long distance rates, by a landslide. So, where price is concerned, you simply cannot lose in switching over to an internet phone service provider.

The other great reason to switch to internet phone is the awesome free features that come standard with the plans. For starters, you get free voice mail (remember when that was an extra alone at the phone company?) and a ton of others. Here is a partial list of features that you can get free with your internet phone service:

Call Hold | Caller ID Block | Caller ID Display | Call Waiting |

Call Forward Always Call Forward on Busy | Call Forward No Answer |

3-Way Calling | Voice mail | 911 Dialing | 411 Dialing | Voice to Email

And there are even more free features available at some of the top VoIP phone providers. So far, we have identified a great, cheap home phone service alternative with a ton of free features. But we're not done yet. On top of that, VoIP home phone is portable. That is because it is carried over the internet. All you have to do is take your VoIP phone, your adapter, or your softphone, with you the next time you travel.

This is easy, because most VoIP phone devices are the size of cel phones. If you use an adapter (which BTW, allows you to use ANY regular phone as a VoIP phone ) they are the size of a business card case. The 3rd option is for Softphone. This means that you do a quick install on your laptop, and you will now be able to take your cheap home phone service with you anywhere in the world where high speed internet access is available.

So, let me paint the picture for you. Lets assume you have VoIP home phone service and are going on vacation overseas to Italy. You simply bring your small, compact VoIP adapter with you. At the hotel, high speed internet is complimentary in all rooms. So, you pull your adapter out of the suitcase, plug it into the in-room broadband internet connection, and then plug the hotel phone into the adapter. Now, you can call your next door neighbor, or your parents, or your in-laws back in the States, and the phone call is considered a local call - just as if you were still back at home. You don't pay one cent of long distance!