Your Long Distance Provider?

would they be opposed to using skype?

 

VOIP?

 

I use Vonage. It works great and I get free calls to most countries I call.

 

Is there a way to lose the home phone

and still get the fax machine to work.

My bro has the EFax online 1-800 but that's too complicated for my parents.

They dont use their home phone, but just for fax.

 

You still need the phone line. It would be easier to teach them how to use efax than to set up a network enabled fax gizmo.

 

Best VOIP is Ooma. I've been a previous customer of Vonage and MagicJack and for the price and call quality, I believe Ooma trumps both in both categories. Check it out...

 

Calling card is still the cheapest way to go for those who stick with the old POTS phone lines.

 

Vonage. Go with the Vonage World plan for $26/mo (introductory rate of $15 for 3 months) and they can call India and pretty much any European country for free and knock themselves out. Stop wasting your money on AT&T POTS, it's a rip off.