If you want to use the whozz calling you will have to convert it. Depending on your phone system you will probably lose the connection between lines (line 1, line 2, etc) that the whozz calling will output vs. your telephone handsets.How many of you use VOIP telephones in your shops?
If yes do you convert the line to analog to run through the Whozz Calling caller ID box?
Does Charter convert it to an analog signal then so you can use any old telephone? Or did you have to sort out the converter box yourself? We have used VOIP since day one (open 5 years now) Functionality, portability, expansion and a vanity number were part of our reasons to go with VOIP. We have one number but it rings to line one then to line 2 if line one is busy etc. If those are down it forwards to a redundant tel. line, we have even taken calls when there is no electrical power in our shop.We’ve used our cable-TV provider for phones since day one, and oddly enough, they are more reliable than our “Copper-Wire telephone line provider” We even switched our home phone to cable/phone
RG6 coax cable in, a modem splits that to our phone modem and internet modem, 60mb speeds online, clear calls on 2 phone lines, more reliable than if I went traditional telephone service. And no weird prefix’s for my area.
Oh, I forgot to mention that cable phone service is just 37% of the cost of using the local telephone provider, plus no 2-year contract with ETF’s either. My POS caller-ID box works with it flawlessly (point of success) with it too.
Charter is the provider in my area, they have been great with customer service too.
Wow, I thought i was in a rural area being way up in far northern Wisconsin. We’ve actually got a more stable cable system than our copper system. I think it is because most of the cable is buried, while telco shares room on power lines, and when you’re in a heavily wooded area, and get storms, the trees like to knock out power and phone. I’m willing to bet that our cellular system is more stout than our landline network since all the towers run on DC power from a battery bank, so when power goes down, the cell towers are still powered. And with LTE showing up a year ago, we are styling…In my area, the old copper phone system is built like a tank. Very little issues in 47 years. Internet on the other hand is stable, but not stable enough to risk losing business when it goes down.