Verizon "Home Phone"
Does anyone use Verizon's or AT&T's "Home Phone" in their RV from their RV batteries and not an AC inverter? The reason I am asking is I have encountered a problem using a Verizon “home phone” along ...
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Hi Dutch,
With the Verizon Home Phone I could also set it up like you have, but the cell phones we carry are Tracfones and we try to limit how much we use them so we don't go beyond our monthly allowance. While in the RV or on the road we use the home phone but when we are riding motorcycle, shopping, hiking, and etc we use the cell phones. Our family knows if it is an emergency and they don't get us on the home phone to call us on the cell.
Not real familiar with the VOIP but from what I understand it uses wifi or data on your cell phone and with doing a lot of boondocking wifi is almost nonexistent so that would increase our data usage on the tracfones.
With the Verizon Home Phone I could also set it up like you have, but the cell phones we carry are Tracfones and we try to limit how much we use them so we don't go beyond our monthly allowance. While in the RV or on the road we use the home phone but when we are riding motorcycle, shopping, hiking, and etc we use the cell phones. Our family knows if it is an emergency and they don't get us on the home phone to call us on the cell.
Not real familiar with the VOIP but from what I understand it uses wifi or data on your cell phone and with doing a lot of boondocking wifi is almost nonexistent so that would increase our data usage on the tracfones.
Dutch_12078 wrote:
We have our Phone Power VOIP "home" phone service forwarded to one of our cell phones so we don't need to lug anything else along with us. The forwarding is set so if the first phone doesn't answer after several rings, the second cell phone rings. A no answer there goes to voicemail. Both cell phones have an app for the VOIP service installed that lets us make calls using the VOIP service. I don't know if the Verizon Home Phone cell service supports any of that, although I'm sure it supports basic forwarding at least. At $35/year using an ObiHai phone adapter, our Phone Power service is a lot cheaper though.
