Getting rid of the home phone

[davemchine]

I have a home phone from Charter Cable but now I would like to convert so my home phone number simply calls my cell phone without any home equipment. What is the best way to do this?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

When you get rid of the home phone service, you get rid of the home phone number. Or am I not understanding your question correctly?

You could look at having your home phone number ported to your cell phone, but that would result in the loss of your current cell phone number, which is something you probably don't want.

[btfc]

https://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

[Robert M]

Dave,

Google Voice will do the job for you. If you still want to be able to use a phone along with calls being forwarded to your cell, then go with Google Voice combined with an Obihai box. Search the forum for details.

Robert

[M>B>]

What ever you settle on be sure 911 works on it, saved my life once!

[ztirffritz]

Port it to Google voice and have calls forwarded to your cell phone. Be aware that 911 calls won't register your home address anymore. They'll just show somewhere in Eastern Washington, South of E-burgh and north of Sunnyside. 911 is the only reason I still have a landline.

[graylocks]

another vote for google voice.

[Speedy]

~$5/month for an Ooma. Setup is extra but you will be able to port your current number.

[davemchine]

Ok so I tried porting my home number to google and it says "We currently don't support porting from your carrier." So I assume I need to port my home number to a cell phone before I can use google voice? Can I do that for such a short period of time? Thanks for the help.

[btfc]

I've heard of others using a tracphone or pay as you go service for this.