We’ve had the phone/broadband connection in our new house for over 3 months now and I still don’t even know what the landline phone number is. Calls on our Sky provided line have a 16.9p access charge plus 11.5ppm – ie a one minute call costs 28.4p.
Given we both have more inclusive mobile minutes than we ever use it doesn’t seem to make any sense to make outgoing calls on it but, especially as Katie works from home (and mobile reception in the basement is really poor) having a landline for incoming only might be a good idea.
Has anyone done anything clever with Voip phones (so outgoing calls automatically redirected to Voip?)? Are there any decent home phones available – sound quality on DECT phones always seems poor. If you’re going to use for outgoing need a way of syncing to our address books (which are on iCloud/MacOS address book)