So Long, AT&T CallVantage, I Will Miss You
Started by Daniel A A dirty little secret for anyone who's ever called me on my home phone, or anyone I've called from my home phone, is that my home phone isn't actually a landline—for a few years now. My home phone is actually VoIP based - via AT&T CallVantage. I had the opportunity to test all the major consumer VoIP services when they first came out in the early to mid 2000s and found that AT&T CallVantage had the best mix of performance and features. It wasn't the cheapest - but it was still a lot cheaper than traditional landline phone service for both local and long distance calls. Impressed nonetheless, I decided to swap my landline for an AT&T CallVantage VoIP line. However, what I gained in features (like email voicemail notifications) and a lower phone bill, I gave up in reliability. Not that I've had any major issues with the CallVantage service - it's been reliable almost all of the time. I can only remember one outage of Ca...