Home Phone and VOIP Tips
Save money on your home phone bills and digital home phone service...
If you want to save money on your home phone, you're in the right place. We've got advice on making the switch to less expensive VOIP plans, and even a couple of tips on how to get your phone service for free. If you've still got a hard-wired phone from your local phone company, you're definitely missing an opportunity.
Battling the dreaded RoboCall is a difficult battle, but it is a battle you can win. There is no ruder way to call someone than the RoboCall because they call you and then put you on hold. RoboCalls are common because (somehow!) they must be making more sales. These calls have been banned, but because of the increase in technology, it is difficult for people to trace these calls.
The charges themselves appear innocently on your phone bill as something vaguely described, such as "$1.99 service fee." Insidious fees like this are typically small in dollar amounts but appear on your bill month after month, adding up to big dollars. Some are brazen, appearing as $19.99 for “ringtones” or some other service.
If you call long distance regularly using a land line, you probably pay too much for your phone bill. If you normally rely on your cellular phone, you are probably wasting the $20-plus each month that you are spending for a land line that is only used when telemarketers call. Here are some ideas for cutting down the amount you spend on your phone bill each month. 
..iotum, a communications company, recently launched a new service called calliflower. If you've used a business-oriented conference bridge before, it has all of those features, but it's even a bit more than that.
A while back, SavingTools introduced you to 
Everyone is looking to cut costs these days. Many people are giving up landline phones and going exclusively to a cell plan. This seems logical enough, until you lose power for a week and can't charge your cell phone, or the battery happens to go dead right when you have an emergency. 
New functionality released by both Google and TheGizmoProject bring up an interesting new possibility...completely free voip telephone service, including both inbound and outbound calls. Both of these services existed previously, but had not, until July of 2009, worked together. Here's the scoop:
