rant whine 'splain espouse: I finally have a home phone

Monday, November 15, 2004

I finally have a home phone

I'm using voice over IP (VoIP), which means I can bypass Ma Bell (in this case, The Devil SBC) and route my telephone calls through my broadband Internet service provider straight to another VoIP user for free, or to another conventional phone user via their traditional Baby Bell service for an extremely low price. Yep, that's right. I am rid of SBC.

So you can reach me at home at the 415 number I sent out via email to many people last week. One of the many cool features of my VoIP service is free voicemail that automatically sends me an email when someone leaves a message. And I can listen to the message via the Web without even needing to phone in and check my voicemail. Cooool.

There are many other cool features. I'll expound on this later, since I've been working on a VoIP Special Feature for Download.com that will launch in a couple days.