Re: [PLUG] Separate but related question: was VOIP choices

[Gary Duzan via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Steve Litt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 21:38:11 -0400
> Gary Duzan via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
>>They do bill by the minute,
>
> Ouch! The return of 1976. Maybe get a WATS line? :-)

   A penny a minute (in 2025 money; $0.001724 in 1976 money) is unlikely
to break the bank, aspecially when the line costs $0.85 a month.

https://voip.ms/pricing

> Can't you put a computer with some special daughter cards, running
> Linux, between your twisted pair and your phones in order to implement
> a "Press 1 to speak to a human" type situation?

   I believe you can do this with Asterisk, if you really want to. I
believe voip.ms will even let you connect it to your account. Their
services are already set up and not too expensive, but it is up to you.

> I know this doesn't fix the issue with porting a phone number, so I
> guess this is kind of a separate but related question.

   Yeah, connecting to POTS and associating phone numbers (DID) with it
are not so straightforward.

                          Gary Duzan


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