cheap home phone services (not VoIP; using traditional copper wires)

Bell is the ONLY one that uses Traditional Phone lines.

All other providers are VOIP (including Rogers)

Bell is moving to VoIP too.

They are slowly phasing out cooper as there is no point in maintaining multiple networks.

Koodo - $5 / month

https://www.koodomobile.com/phones/wireless-home-phone

sexyj wrote: ↑ Koodo - $5 / month

https://www.koodomobile.com/phones/wireless-home-phone

The OP stated "using traditional copper wires".

sexyj wrote: ↑ Koodo - $5 / month

https://www.koodomobile.com/phones/wireless-home-phone

dont want wireless. Using the old fashioned copper wire wall jack

jdmfishingonly wrote: ↑ Bell is the ONLY one that uses Traditional Phone lines.

All other providers are VOIP (including Rogers)

we are with rogers and pay about $40 for our home phone

yesstyle wrote: ↑ What's good in the GTA? Don't want to go through Robelus anymore

it's not longer possible to get that.

sexyj wrote: ↑ Koodo - $5 / month

https://www.koodomobile.com/phones/wireless-home-phone

If you look at the detaits, it's 16.25 per month for the first year and then 20$.
Also, this is wireless.

yesstyle wrote: ↑ dont want wireless. Using the old fashioned copper wire wall jack

It's wireless indeed, however uses old fashioned copper wire wall jack. You plug standard rj11 from wireless modem to any wall jack. Then plug any landline r11 plug to wall jacks throughout the house. You must disconnect bell from demarcation or feedback from bell, active or not, will mess up the phone signal.

Or just plug one phone to the wireless modem. Beats paying $30/m to bell.

If the OP actually want POTS then there is no deal to be had.

They have to go through rogers.

elgros4 wrote: ↑ If you look at the detaits, it's 16.25 per month for the first year and then 20$.
Also, this is wireless.

OP, the copper wires are being abandoned in pace. I don't think that Bell will offer the traditional POTS service in places where they have run fiber. In my area, Bell has done the upgrades and if I want a home phone service from them, they are not using the old copper wires. Had I stayed on the old service, they might not kick me off because it provides a fantastic revenue for them. At the time I dropped the copper service for wireless home phone a decade ago, Bell was already charging $30 for a local calling plan with crazy expensive long distance charges. I sense you might think that nothing beats the copper wires for reliability. That would be true if the system is receiving the attention that it needs to remain reliable. Unfortunately that has not been the case for many years already. All replacement home phone services be it VOIP or wireless have 911 capability similar the copper wire system.

Not sure if they currently offer it but Teksavvy does/did offer POTS home phone which is thorough bell but if you were lucky to get it before.

jdmfishingonly wrote: ↑ Bell is the ONLY one that uses Traditional Phone lines.

All other providers are VOIP (including Rogers)

Contact Teksavvy they used to offer POTS and may still be able to offer it here and there, at least thast what they told me a while ago when they were not offering it and I was trying to get a family member on it.

yesstyle wrote: ↑ What's good in the GTA? Don't want to go through Robelus anymore

yesstyle wrote: ↑ What's good in the GTA? Don't want to go through Robelus anymore

whats your reason for copper only?

sickcars wrote: ↑Contact Teksavvy they used to offer POTS and may still be able to offer it here and there, at least thast what they told me a while ago when they were not offering it and I was trying to get a family member on it.

Thanks but checked website and i only see voip

killoverme wrote: ↑ whats your reason for copper only?

can still use when there's no electricity or if internet is down and the quality is better

yesstyle wrote: ↑ can still use when there's no electricity or if internet is down

DIY VoIP will go down without protection, but typically the VoIP supplied by the ISP has an ATA with a built in battery.
If the ATA has a cable connection (TBH I can't remember if they hooked in directly to cable or ethernet to the modem) then it'll function without power because the upstream is also on UPS. If it doesn't have a cable connection and hooks to the modem, you'd have to protect the modem.

To be honest, the price difference between VoIP and copper can pay for a UPS in a few months.
Plus IDK where this is going (elderly without a cell phone?) but most people have a cell phone nowadays to make backup or emergency calls.

yesstyle wrote: ↑ Thanks but checked website and i only see voip



can still use when there's no electricity or if internet is down and the quality is better

Yeah thats what I assumed. So most places are using 'Wireless Homephone' which is basically a cell phone (it has a sim card inside). The device they use has a built in battery back-up so technically all those $5/month wireless (possible more if no deal) will work during internet being down/blackout.

So that's an option. Quality is like a cell phone which I feel is good in general.

This is why I said contact them. They took it off their website a while ago but after the fact I talked to them and they said they could still offer it here and there to a few customers. I believe they were limited on how many new customers they could sign up.

yesstyle wrote: ↑ Thanks but checked website and i only see voip



can still use when there's no electricity or if internet is down and the quality is better

will888 wrote: ↑ OP, the copper wires are being abandoned in pace.

Only the copper wires outside in the street are being abandoned, if you have copper wires in your house you can continue to still use it with ANY phone company, ie rogers wireless home phone, rogers cable home phone, koodoo wireless home phone, virgin wireless home phone, telus wireless home phone, voip-ms.com, vonage, magic jack pro, comwave just have to figure outt how to tie it into your existing wiring which is actually pretty easy to do