new phone service through cable?

[st0rm]

hi, my cable company is now offering a flat $34.95 rate service for unlimited local, regional and long distance calls. the price is a bit less than what I currently pay for my regular phone bill.

Do you guys think this is a good technology to transfer over to? What things are there to watch out for, what disadvantages are there?

I'm trying to help my dad decide. Thanks.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Been on Cox cable phone since it came out and I haven't looked back.

Plus with the combo of services I save even more money on internet, phone, and tv.

Go for it.

Bill

[jman01pa]

I have had phone service through the cable company in the past and it worked great. The only problem I had was in the beginning, my old phone company took several days to switch the connection over to the cable company.

Currently I have no land lines. I use a cell phone as my primary phone.

I would do it again.

[st0rm]

My parents both have cellphones but they want something for the house and the existing plan they have is still quite a bit with all the fees the phone company tacks on for call waiting, etc. and the 10 cents a minute for the occasional long distance calls made from the house.

The service that our cablevision offers currently gives you a new phone number which isnt really an option for us since we want to keep our old phone number. The cox service seems interesting but I dont know if it is available in our area, plus it is a tad more expensive the service is probably superior. However, I dont know if we want to change our cable tv, internet service.

I guess it's just the idea of lowering our telephone bill expense if we dont really need it, we have cellphones etc. Thanks for the help guys.

[Kruzin]

I ran telephone over my cable for a while.
I was not impressed.
The quality was less than my standard phone line, and I got a LOT of cross-talk (constantly heard other voices in the background).
Since then, I have just gone wireless and given up all land lines...