Saving money on telephone service isn’t that hard, if you’re willing to do a little work. With a ton of VoIP telephone companies now available in the US, and a few land-line telephone companies, there are lots of options for saving money, especially if you already have high speed internet service.
While regular land-line telephone service is usually more expensive than VoIP phone service, it can be cheaper if you do not make very many calls each month. You can currently get a local telephone line from many of the major carriers, for around $15 per month, but most of those plans don’t come with any features, like caller id, call waiting or voicemail, unless you pay extra. Plus, there is an additional fee for any long distance telephone calls. But, even if you do make a couple of hundred minutes worth of long distance calls per month, if you’re using a discount long distance carrier like Opex, or Pioneer, your bill would still be under $20 in most cases.
On the other hand, if you already have high speed internet service in your home, you might as well use it to your advantage, and use a VoIP phone Service providers. The telephone service now provided by VoIP companies is just as good as the service provided by wireline companies, though some people still remember the bad old days when it sucked. While many people remember the old days of VoIP telephone service, and are leery of trying it out, VoIP telephone service is now one of the best deals on the market, with many unlimited local and long distance plans coming in at under $20 per month.
There are websites on the net that make finding cheap telephone service easy. Just go to Google, Yahoo or Bing, and do a search for telephone rate comparisons, and you should find a pretty long list of websites that rank and rate calling plans. These types of sites let you enter your calling patterns, including local and long distance minutes used each month, and then they spit out a list of plans that offer the best match, and save you the most money.
If you already have high speed internet service, and you want to skip the online search for telephone service, you should just try out Magicjack, which offers unlimited local and long distance telephone service for under $20 per year, or try Google Voice and Skype. While computer based telephone calls are OK, if that’s all you need, I personally prefer Magicjack, because it comes with 911 service.
When comparing calling plans at the telephone comparison websites, you should go over your old telephone bills and have this information on hand:
- Monthly instate long distance minutes.
- Any fees charged by your phone company.
- Any countries that you call on a regular basis, and the average number of minutes.
- State to State long distance calling minutes.
By running this information through one of these comparison websites, you’ll end up being able to see the features and prices of plans that are available in your area, without having to wade through 25 different sites and a whole legal pad full of notes.
Even if you’re not interested, you should check the VoIP calling plans too, since eventually the FCC will do away with land-line telephone service. AT&T and other telephone companies have requested the FCc do away with land-line telephone service, since it’s so much more expensive to maintain. The FCC is now working with the telephone companies to bring high speed internet service into all areas of the country, so that everyone can have access to the lower costs of VoIP telephone service.
Now that you know how to find cheaper telephone service, head on over to a search engine and get started today.
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