topic Re: Remove phone service in My account

Can I remove home phone service but still keep the internet?

o_kerrebyn — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:59:41 GMT

We have a cottage with a land line that provides a phone and unlimited Internet. Can I remove the phone service but still keep the internet. Most guests who use the cottage have their own cell phones and with all the new VoIP apps it seems pointless to keep the phone. Contemplating having a shared cell phone just connected to the internet with a VoIP app installed.

Re: Remove phone service

CanadianGal — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:22:10 GMT

Yes totally doable, I've got that set up at home as we all have cells, and my kids are now older and can call for help and give the address if needed. When they were young though I kept it for security reasons so all they had to manage to do was call 911 in an emergency. Otherwise it was just my mom and scammers calling. Just keep a charged power bank handy in the event of a power outage, especially if you are at a cottage.

Re: Remove phone service

JD — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:27:18 GMT

Yes, it is possible. We wanted to disconnect our home phone because we didn't use it anymore but still wanted to keep our phone #. We were able to port it over from Home Phone to Cell Phone with no impact to our internet. The only thing is we lost a discount we got for having more than one service.

Re: Remove phone service

CJ — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:57:05 GMT

Interesting for me as we were about to drop our Bell land-line and were told that we would loose our sympatico email addresses when we did this. But of course we access our sympatico email from our Bell Mobility cell phones, not our land-line. I'm perplexed...