Alternatives to residential telephony

 With all the alternatives which technology as regards phone service offers to us, some among us can be tried to give up their traditional phone line in order to save money. Here advantages and disadvantages of certain alternatives to residential telephony.
There exist advantages in the fact of giving up its traditional telephone in favour of a cell phone. The use of cellular is simple and advantageous, with the proviso of having a good fixed price. It makes it possible to use the same apparatus at the house and during your displacements, since you can transport your telephone with you of all times. In certain cases, you will be able to make calls long distance free.

The use of a cell phone comprises disadvantages however. Since you can use your telephone everywhere, you can mislay it easily, or to damage it or to make you fly it. The expenses of replacement or repair of cellular are generally very high. Moreover, it is not always very practical to have only one telephone for a whole family. In the event of urgency, you can of course join the 911, but if you are in the incapacity to give your site to the operator, this one could have misery to find you, since the signals of your cellular will be able to give him only your approximate localization.
Another interesting option is the use of a phone service by Internet. These telephones function using your connection Internet, and several companies propose their version of this service to you. You will have to install on your computer a device, a program, or both. You will be able to then carry out free calls between users of the same service, or of the calls to reduction towards any telephone, anywhere.
However, since they depend entirely on your connection Internet, these services are not always reliable. If your service Internet is stopped, you will not be able to use your telephone. In certain cases, if a power cut occurs, your telephone will be also unusable. In the event of urgency, you could have the same problem as with a cell phone by announcing the 911.
If you do not wish to get a cell phone to you nor to benefit from a phone service by Internet, you could decide you turn towards your cablodistributor. It is possible near certain companies to twin your phone line with your cable and your connection Internet in order to save. These companies generally offer an excellent service to the customers.
However, even if such a fixed price can make you save, you will pay necessarily much less expensive than with an independent telephone service residential. Moreover, the use of such a telephone subjects to you with constraints, contrary to the use of a cell phone, for example.
Finally, you can choose to preserve your traditional phone line, but to carry out some changes in your service. It is enough not to choose a fixed price covering the calls long distance, in order to profit from the basic service the least expensive possible. To carry out calls long distance, there exist many companies of inexpensive prepaid charts of call. Moreover, you can get a cordless phone, which will offer same freedom of movement to you as a cell phone, but without the disadvantages of this one.