Internet/Phone Service ?

tedsports · 03-12-2010, 09:43 AM

I currently have Comcast as my provider for internet, phone, and cable TV.
Runs me around $150 per month.

Am looking at starting a business and will need a fax, and another phone line.

Does anyone have any suggestions on deals to help minimize the cost of all this? Not sure if it makes sense to split up the Comcast package or not?

Thanks!

iluvfish2 · 03-12-2010, 10:14 AM

If you can get away with it, I'd use the phone line for a fax in hopes of cutting down on a 2nd phone line. I also think the rates are much higher if its an "official" business line.

ghost · 03-12-2010, 10:26 AM

MAGIC JACK. It works, and peope do use it for faxing. Look it up. Doesnt get any cheaper than that. I have one, and use it for phone calls.

Cactuspies · 03-12-2010, 11:31 AM

I just picked up a magicjack last week. $40 and nothing else for a year (then it will ask you if you want to renew @ $19.95 after the 1st year is over.) My current phone is a basic nothing phone service w/my cable & internet and my bill is just over $100 w/the phone being $30 of that after taxes/fees!!! So far so good with the MJ. It gets a little fuzzy when you are near other electronics though that could also be the crummy portable phone I have. You can get a local #, call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, they email your messages to you, you can forward you calls to a cell...and your computer doesnt even have to be on to get your messages, just needs to be on to make and receive the calls so I have mine off all day until I'm home.

Nicnac · 03-12-2010, 12:20 PM

so many services... Ooma (like magic jack but no monthly fee and a lot of people swear by it). You do pay upfront for the box however.
An up and coming company like Ooma (and one that is annoying Magic Jack to stupidity) is Boing Boing. Boing Boing has pointed out (correctly) that the EULA in Magic Jack is ... um very fishy. MJ responded by taking them to court and they were kicked out for having no case. In short, the Judge ruled that everything BB said about MJ was true according to their own EULA and practices.
I use a t-mobile DTA (like Vonage). It's like an extra line added to my cellphone account and is crystal clear (over Comcast cable).

03-12-2010, 09:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
tedsports Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 264 tedsports	Internet/Phone Service ? I currently have Comcast as my provider for internet, phone, and cable TV. Runs me around $150 per month. Am looking at starting a business and will need a fax, and another phone line. Does anyone have any suggestions on deals to help minimize the cost of all this? Not sure if it makes sense to split up the Comcast package or not? Thanks!

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iluvfish2 moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Lansing, Michigan Posts: 12,939 iluvfish2 iluvfish2	If you can get away with it, I'd use the phone line for a fax in hopes of cutting down on a 2nd phone line. I also think the rates are much higher if its an "official" business line. __________________ Blowouts Resident Wade Boggs Super Collector Looking for any 07 SPA #129 Tulowitzki By the Letter Rookie Signatures Auto /20 1000 New Cards Due on COMC on 6/21/10

03-12-2010, 10:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
ghost Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1,061 srbumblebeeman	MAGIC JACK. It works, and peope do use it for faxing. Look it up. Doesnt get any cheaper than that. I have one, and use it for phone calls. __________________ Grammar quiz, fill in the blanks: You _____ something. You have something for _____. A. Sale B. Sell

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Cactuspies Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Arizona from Red Sox Nation Posts: 977 azpatssox09 azsoxpatriots	I just picked up a magicjack last week. $40 and nothing else for a year (then it will ask you if you want to renew @ $19.95 after the 1st year is over.) My current phone is a basic nothing phone service w/my cable & internet and my bill is just over $100 w/the phone being $30 of that after taxes/fees!!! So far so good with the MJ. It gets a little fuzzy when you are near other electronics though that could also be the crummy portable phone I have. You can get a local #, call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, they email your messages to you, you can forward you calls to a cell...and your computer doesnt even have to be on to get your messages, just needs to be on to make and receive the calls so I have mine off all day until I'm home. __________________ checkoutmycards.com/Users/azsoxpatriots -New Cards Live on 7/12 more will be up 8/16! s538.photobucket.com/albums/ff344/azsoxpatriots/ sportlots.com ID AzPats10 looking for bryce brentz and julian edelman if price is right

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03-12-2010, 12:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
Nicnac Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 694	so many services... Ooma (like magic jack but no monthly fee and a lot of people swear by it). You do pay upfront for the box however. An up and coming company like Ooma (and one that is annoying Magic Jack to stupidity) is Boing Boing. Boing Boing has pointed out (correctly) that the EULA in Magic Jack is ... um very fishy. MJ responded by taking them to court and they were kicked out for having no case. In short, the Judge ruled that everything BB said about MJ was true according to their own EULA and practices. I use a t-mobile DTA (like Vonage). It's like an extra line added to my cellphone account and is crystal clear (over Comcast cable).