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TheProfessor · 08-07-2014, 06:57 PM

Fairpoint is the only company that provides traditional POTS land line telephone service.
All others listed above are internet or cell based.
Fairpoint traditional land line can be had for somewhere between $15.00 - $20.00 per month.
The traditional Fairpoint land line rarely goes out. Unless a tree falls on the wires and then everything is out anyway. Other then a cell phone.
Some issues with internet based phones is that the connection can be disrupted either externally or internally - such as your modem quits.
I have both. An internet phone - NetTalk - and Fairpoint.
Some of the internet phones do not do a fax although few people do faxes anymore.
The NetTalk internet phone will turn off randomly every so often. Whereas the Fairpoint has never turned off.

08-07-2014, 06:57 PM	#9
TheProfessor Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,062 Thanks: 17 Thanked 326 Times in 198 Posts	Fairpoint is the only company that provides traditional POTS land line telephone service. All others listed above are internet or cell based. Fairpoint traditional land line can be had for somewhere between $15.00 - $20.00 per month. The traditional Fairpoint land line rarely goes out. Unless a tree falls on the wires and then everything is out anyway. Other then a cell phone. Some issues with internet based phones is that the connection can be disrupted either externally or internally - such as your modem quits. I have both. An internet phone - NetTalk - and Fairpoint. Some of the internet phones do not do a fax although few people do faxes anymore. The NetTalk internet phone will turn off randomly every so often. Whereas the Fairpoint has never turned off.