Whats the downside to VOIP?
This isn’t a direct answer to your question, because I don’t live in the same market as you, but it might be informative. Here in the Netherlands, the largest telco (KPN) has been switching customers to voip for a few years now. In the old days, they’d have a copper-pair entering their house, and a telephone would be hooked up to that. adsl was invented, and they’d give people a “splitter” they would hook up to the copper pair. One plug in the “splitter” would go to the phone, one would go the the adsl modem. A few years ago, they introduced “internetplusbellen” (roughly translates to “internet plus phone calls”), and you would connect the phone to the adsl modem instead of to the splitter, and the splitter disappeared. That would be all that the customer would see, but technically they’d just switched to a voip solution – the adsl modem did the heavy lifting with SIP accounts and such, and (most) people were none the wiser. This migration has gone so far that I expect KPN to be able t
