Free? Check. Convenient? Check. This little-known service is waiting to supplement your smartphone -- if you know how to take advantage of it. We’ve been talking a lot lately about how Project Fi can ...

Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of experience in the home space and 10 years of editing experience. Kristin is a lead editor at Forbes Home and has nearly a ...

Whether you pay $40 a month for home phone service or $4 a month, you’re paying too much. Why? Because there’s another option out there that gives you unlimited crystal clear nationwide calling for a ...

Several years ago, Verizon and Straight Talk teamed up to introduce a wireless home phone base station, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling, voicemail, caller ID, three-way calling ...

If you’re buying home phone service from a traditional provider, you’re paying too much. Internet phone products sell service via your broadband connection at dirt-cheap rates. Here’s how three stack ...

Home telephone, cable television, and internet started as separate services but evolved over the past two decades into a “triple play” of technologies that are often bundled by providers. That ...

Google is taking on traditional providers with its $10-a-month Fiber Phone service. Customers can make and answer calls from any connected device anywhere Internet is available. Marguerite Reardon ...

My free lunch is about to end. I’m one of a few hundred thousand customers enjoying free monthly home phone service.* We use a low-cost analog telephone adapter (ATA) called an OBi, connected to ...

In the early days of home internet, a phone line was the key to accessing the world wide web. A lot has changed since then, and many homeowners and internet providers have left the landline behind in ...

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