I signed up for a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone service a couple of days ago and set it all up late this afternoon. The setup was easy and everything worked right the first time. It seems to work well, at least so far: good voice quality and no issues of any sort. It seems, frankly, indistinguishable from our old phone company. The big plus in all of this for me is that our phone bill (combined local and long distance) now drops to nearly a third of what the old phone bill was monthly, from about 100 dollars per month down to 35, and that's with having a separate fax line! And we now have unlimited minutes; we can call anywhere in the US and Canada for as long as we like for that flat rate of 35 bucks a month. I like it!