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Wireless Home Phone - $10/20 (Current Customer) or $30 (New Customer) /Month
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- mikeye9
- Jr. Member
- Nov 21, 2009
- 193 posts
- 75 upvotes
- agadgetgeek
- Banned
- Dec 29, 2008
- 287 posts
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- Toronto
Is this dependent on my wireless cell phone being there? Or do I get a new number for home use only?
- infamouskid
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- Oct 15, 2005
- 12954 posts
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- North York
its just like verizons wifi home calling.
this is just a wireless ATA.
this is just a wireless ATA.
- PsychoMantis
- Deal Addict
- Feb 5, 2004
- 1218 posts
- 633 upvotes
that's my question as well, would consider porting my Bell home phone line to fido for this, would be using one modem and panasonic cordless (one base, extended with a few other handsets throughout the house).agadgetgeek wrote: ↑Is this dependent on my wireless cell phone being there? Or do I get a new number for home use only?
she may be payin for dinner, but i'll be earnin it later!
- skidragoon
- Deal Addict
- Aug 28, 2005
- 1474 posts
- 477 upvotes
- Toronto
You can connect your home phones which can be placed all over your home, which is ideal for families whereas sharing 1 cellphone or having 4 cellphones can be tricky/expensive. Also this is $10 for current customers, so unlimited mins for 10 is great and for me who uses a landline i will be saving by switching, and I personally feel better using fido instead of a voip.goozy1 wrote: ↑I don't get it. What's the point of this?? Most mobile plans now include unlimited canada wide minutes so why would you need a separate home phone?
I can't see anyone who would benefit from this unless you have an old fido plan with limited minutes and make all your calls when you are at home. But then you might as well switch to Wind or Chatr or something
- nerdonsite
- Deal Addict
- Jun 16, 2003
- 1406 posts
- 454 upvotes
- Brampton, ON
You would have to switch to a wireless phone system with Multiple handsets, where you connect base station to wireless ATA (device Fido provides for $30) and basestation connects to all the handsets. If you dont have wireless handset than you would need to probably buy three ATA's from Fido ($90), dont know if you have pay $10 for each ATA or they can add all ATA to same account/number.
- jjs0891
- Member
- Nov 22, 2012
- 336 posts
- 92 upvotes
- Vancouver
my handsets are wireless. They're the exact ones on the Fido website. So do i just connect the base station with the fido box w/e and then all my handsets would work?..
also how would i keep my number? Do I sign up for this before i cancel my telus home phone?
also how would i keep my number? Do I sign up for this before i cancel my telus home phone?
nerdonsite wrote: ↑You would have to switch to a wireless phone system with Multiple handsets, where you connect base station to wireless ATA (device Fido provides for $30) and basestation connects to all the handsets. If you dont have wireless handset than you would need to probably buy three ATA's from Fido ($90), dont know if you have pay $10 for each ATA or they can add all ATA to same account/number.
- keljai
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- May 22, 2006
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- Toronto
I wonder if I would need to pay dry loop fee for my dsl Internet then
Member since 2006
Fido- $40/15GB
Curren phone: Samsung s20FE
Fido- $40/15GB
Curren phone: Samsung s20FE
- kenze
- Deal Addict
- Apr 9, 2010
- 3793 posts
- 2617 upvotes
- Montreal
Guys, this is much better than using freephoneline if Fido uses their cellular network instead of your wifi. It would definitely make it worth 10$.
- nerdonsite
- Deal Addict
- Jun 16, 2003
- 1406 posts
- 454 upvotes
- Brampton, ON
Yes it would work, as base station will be doing all the communication with Fido ATA.
^It would only make sense if your city is not covered by FPL or if your not tech savvy enough to setup/maintain voip.
- inferno_gn
- Deal Guru
- Apr 23, 2004
- 14972 posts
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- Montreal
Hi there,
If there is a power failure, that modem will be useless, unless you have a UPS attach to it, yet, that won't last long. I wouldn't mind getting rid of my home phone, that would save me 25$, but with the dry-loop fees still in affect, no point for me...
Ju Leon...
If there is a power failure, that modem will be useless, unless you have a UPS attach to it, yet, that won't last long. I wouldn't mind getting rid of my home phone, that would save me 25$, but with the dry-loop fees still in affect, no point for me...
Ju Leon...
- erichau
- Member
- Apr 21, 2008
- 490 posts
- 211 upvotes
So is this Wireless-VOIP (over HSPA & LTE)? or circuit-switched GSM-Wireless Based?
- kenze
- Deal Addict
- Apr 9, 2010
- 3793 posts
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- Montreal
inferno_gn wrote: ↑Hi there,
If there is a power failure, that modem will be useless, unless you have a UPS attach to it, yet, that won't last long. I wouldn't mind getting rid of my home phone, that would save me 25$, but with the dry-loop fees still in affect, no point for me...
Ju Leon...
A power failure only happens once or twice a year, especially in Montreal.
It wouldn't last more than a few minutes (few hours if it's really bad), and you have your Fido cell as backup for those "omg, I can't live without my telephone for 15 minutes" moments.
With those 25$ a month you save, pay the install fee to go with ElectronicBox on cable and get rid of that crappy unreliable DSL.
- burrows
- Jr. Member
- Jun 28, 2012
- 113 posts
- 31 upvotes
do you guys think fax machine would work with this?
- rianca
- Member
- Apr 6, 2008
- 241 posts
- 62 upvotes
- Montreal, QC
Can I have this phone in a different city where I'm located, just thinking to send it to my mother that lives in a different province or Can I have a vancouver number while I live in Toronto?
- rianca
- Member
- Apr 6, 2008
- 241 posts
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- Montreal, QC
phone coms with sim card att in the us has the same phone http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp ... K4fjh4NV01
- ChinpokoMon
- Deal Addict
- Jul 27, 2003
- 4686 posts
- 3840 upvotes
- Edmonton
If the wireless device is indeed the ZTE WF720, then it should have a battery built-in as backup.inferno_gn wrote: ↑Hi there,
If there is a power failure, that modem will be useless, unless you have a UPS attach to it, yet, that won't last long. I wouldn't mind getting rid of my home phone, that would save me 25$, but with the dry-loop fees still in affect, no point for me...
Ju Leon...
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- goozy1
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- Aug 7, 2011
- 1942 posts
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- VANCOUVER
but you can already do that WITHOUT paying fido a monthly fee. Just buy a bluetooth-enabled cordless phone adapter:skidragoon wrote: ↑You can connect your home phones which can be placed all over your home, which is ideal for families whereas sharing 1 cellphone or having 4 cellphones can be tricky/expensive.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Resource-Ar ... 9000050039
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplate ... cat0800000
Yes but my point was that this is a rip off since you can get a unlimited plan from Chatr for $20/month:skidragoon wrote: ↑ Also this is $10 for current customers, so unlimited mins for 10 is great and for me who uses a landline i will be saving by switching, and I personally feel better using fido instead of a voip.
http://www.chatrwireless.com/web/chatr. ... ePromotion
if you already have a fido plan (without unlimited minutes) it would need to be less than $10 a month to be cheaper than going with Chatr.
- jjs0891
- Member
- Nov 22, 2012
- 336 posts
- 92 upvotes
- Vancouver
that is local outgoing. You'd need to pay $35 a month from chatr to get unlimited canada-wide. Which is what this is, for $10 a month. Point is, this is awesome. Deal with it.
goozy1 wrote: ↑but you can already do that WITHOUT paying fido a monthly fee. Just buy a bluetooth-enabled cordless phone adapter:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Resource-Ar ... 9000050039
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplate ... cat0800000
Yes but my point was that this is a rip off since you can get a unlimited plan from Chatr for $20/month:
http://www.chatrwireless.com/web/chatr. ... ePromotion
if you already have a fido plan (without unlimited minutes) it would need to be less than $10 a month to be cheaper than going with Chatr.
- infamouskid
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- Oct 15, 2005
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