Internet phone fun...

Well, here I am scratching my head trying to figure out how I can cut my bills each month. Finances are more than tight as of late... But I had the brainstorm that we could get a single cell phone to share between Terra and I, and then maybe switch to having a home phone with DSL for internet - in switching the three around, we might actually be able to save around $50 a month!

The first disappointment was that Embarq (our local phone and DSL provider) would hand us a bill of approximately $65 a month (some friends who have Embarq let us know about this). I was almost hoping to be able to use AT&T, but they would have to run a cable to our house and all that fun stuff - though the cool part was if it worked we could combine all our internet, home phone and cell phone into one bill.

Then I remembered that voip providers (that would be internet phone service providers) usually charge around $15 to $20 a month. I could keep our present high speed hook-up and add home phone for just a little bit more. Disappointment. Time Warner voip service costs $30 a month - ridiculous!

But then I remembered Vonage - weren't they supposed to be cheaper? I checked 'em out. Yes they were cheaper, but they had all these taxes and extra charges. Could I go cheaper yet? Actually, yes. So now I'm weighing basically three voip providers: vonage, itel, and voip.com.

Yeah, if anyone out there knows anything about these, feel free to let me know!