Comment on Replacing a landline phone
thunderousApplaus@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoAre you trying to learn how this works or just need a landline?
Both. I have only one ISP which maybe offers (there is some contradictory wording on their site) landlines for consumers. And they charge outrageous prices for a service which would be used at most once a day for a couple of minutes.
But if you say it’s tough to pull of for a noobie then I’ll look for other solutions.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It isn’t technically tough to do anymore, but you can only self-hosting the sip endpoint, you need to rely on and pay for upstream trunking.
Also, be aware that 911 or emergency service contact is all over the place. In Canada, VoIP providers do not provide 911 unless they have a pots tie-in somewhere, and there are still tragic issues where 911 calls are routed to dispatchers thousands of km away.
If you have any nontechnical people who expect all the features of a landline using this, don’t do it yourself.