Cell and home phone integrated

by YankeeJim | December 7, 2010 at 12:39 pm

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This is what I have been waiting for. I have a cell phone, a digital phone from a cable service, cable service, internet via cable, and internet wireless all flying around here.

What I want is one integrated operation that serves my needs wherever I go.

Verizon is a step closer with this announcement, I think. Is this something or just another phone company rip?

“Verizon Service to Let Home Phones use Cell Minutes

By Lance Whitney

Source: CNET News

Verizon is testing a new service that could eliminate the need for a dedicated landline account.

Known as Home Phone Connect, the service would let Verizon Wireless subscribers make calls from their landline phones using Verizon's cellular network, allowing them to share minutes between their cell phones and home phones.

Customers would be able to keep their existing landline phones through the use of a base station that taps into Verizon's wireless network and then connects calls to the home phone handset, according to Network World. A battery backup would provide power to the base should the electricity go out.

The service itself would cost an extra $9.99 a month for Verizon Wireless subscribers who pay at least $69.99 for their current family plans or an extra $19.99 a month for unlimited local and long distance calls. Subscribers will also be able to carry their existing home phone numbers to the new service.

Currently available for testing to customers in New York and Connecticut, Home Phone Connect would offer virtually the same features available with a traditional landline account, including 911, 411, and 611 service as well as such options as call waiting, call forwarding, caller ID, international dialing, and three-way calling.”