I rarely use my land line. I probably make 5-6 calls/month; used to be more until my parents passed, but am not (yet) ready to go cell only. I like that even if the electricity is out (was out once for a week after a hurricane), my old fashioned phone works. And I like being having multiple extensions spread around the house.
My current land line is like $40 a month, so planning ahead for reduced income, I'm looking for alternatives. I am not really interested in VOIP, although my cable company pushes it, because of a) what happens when the elec is out and b)I've had my internet out for days at a time... thank you Comcast. I do have a limited cell phone (100 min / month that I never use all of), but with the telemarketers who constantly call my land line, I don't want to use the cell# as my primary and have it ringing while I'm at work. Yes I'm on the no-call list; yes they ignore that.
I used to see a gadget on the Wal-mart site that was a home phone replacement. As I remember, it actually ran off of a dedicated cell phone, but you could port the old landline # to it, and I believe could also plug a set of phone extensions into it.
Sound familiar? Or does anyone know of something similar. I may yet bite the bullet and get ooma, but wanted to check alternatives.