Land line companies HATE HIM! Learn how he saved $60/ Month through this neat trick!

You guys are the friggin' best. I've been working on this one since I uploaded my last video two months ago and I was worried up until four hours ago that no one would care about a video about home phones because they'd be too boring, etc. I'm breathing again. Love you guys. 😍

I watched your entire presentation even though it was off the topic I'm investigating. Just because of the entertainment value, and the quality of your production. Then I read a couple dozen reviews, and I must agree with those who appreciate the audio quality. Not subscribing yet, but will be looking for other presentations that may address my interests. Good job!

Great video btw! Extremely informative, very helpful, great research etc, People dont seem to realize how much work is involved in preparing for videos like this, all the talking points & research involved. A++ work!

Dude *Your Back*, finally! I really enjoyed your last video on Collage and Gaming Laptops I couldn't believe that was only your 2nd video! This channel is going places, and I'm glad to be a part of it this early on

i took your advice in buying an acer chromebook instead of a new laptop for school work and honestly its been great

Wonderful presentation, _especially_ with the clear audio. Glad you set up the mic - audio is every bit as important as the visual

I have had much the same experience. It's like magic when you are polite and understand how this works. Great announcer voice by the way! I hope you're getting paid a lot of $$$ for it! It's perfect.

Is that a Linus tech tips t shirt

roses are red I just ate glue the tutorial starts at 8:52

I can't believe people think that's a recording of him actually talking to his ISP/phone provider.

I just reviewed your video and used the information for the second time. This time, since I was already down to just internet service, I was able to get them to offer me 500Mbs service for only $45 per month, when I had been getting 60Mbs for $55 per month. WIN!!! Thank you so much for this very informative video!

This dude's 3 videos are better than all of our videos combined, I love this guy

When getting the next deal with the Retention/Loyalty rep, it's a good idea to ask for the conversation identifier (or their employee identifier), so as to better ensure that you actually get the stated deal. The group that's porting your number out (from your old provider) may not necessarily take the time to review any written notes to adjust pricing, and by that time, without any record of the original conversation, you'll have lost the leverage that you had earlier.

I have had this set up like for 5 years, with an Obi for two lines, and it works flawlessly. Two lines for free and I also connected a fax to one of the lines. Hope it will work like that forever.

dude this is swesome. Thats for taking us throught the cable call. I do a very simular thing each time my service "special" is up.

Don't even care about phones, but his voice is so soothing!

Only 25k subs w/ this production value? Damn. Keep it up, DeV.

Hello sir, I just used your advice and managed to get my ISP to reduce my monthly bill by $16 and change, as well as getting an upgrade in Ethernet speed (200 to 300), with the deal locked in for 24 months. Gratitude, sir. Now I will look into your hardware and Google Voice to replace my $20 monthly Vonage service. Excellent video.

I've had my Obi 14 months now and I love it! I prepaid Anveo $25 for 1 yr of E911 service. Each E911 call cost $5 so that gives me 5 E911 calls per year. If your setting up for a sick elderly who might exceed 5 E911 calls, you may want to put more money into the prepaid account. It doesn't roll over if not used. You have to renew the service after a year but price stayed at $25. I test mine monthly by calling 933 and so far everything has been great and no problems. This video helped give me the confidence to let go of AT&T. I set mine up along with 3 of my friends. They also love not paying for phone service. My friend's mother has a vacation home in the mountains where cell service is bad and the Obi was perfect. She was thrilled to get this setup. Thanks so much for your video. It really helped me more than I can say. May God bless you! 😇

I bought the Obi1062 phone and I love it! Basically a phone with the Obi box built in. Free everything and I have the GV app on my phone, so the number goes where I go. Couldn't be happier.

This is definitely a unique topic. However, it's nice to see some variation in the community. This is also good to know for people with a lower budget. Keep up the good work!

Really nice, thorough video about what can be a complicated issue for many. Some of us still need 'home phones' (in my case, for my very ill mother who doesn't know how to use cells) and this video made making the change and ultimately, saving money, easy.

Wow! What a great video. You really laid out the process, the details and the pitfalls in one terrific vid. Thanks for the work.

I'm the first person out of my friends and family to ditch the landline. There is ONE big advantage to keeping it, however. There are a lot more regulations in place to ensure robust service. If you live in a hurricane or disaster prone area you really should consider keeping your landline. Also, if you're in a big city and own/rent a house, consider going with over the air TV. You can get excellent quality local channels. Supplement that with a good streaming service About 80% of most people watch on TV is available for free over the air.

I wanted to let you know that I just had that 'chill' conversation with Frontier. Result: I just doubled my internet speed...and they're bringing me a new router! I also bought the Obihi. I brought the home # over to an existing wireless line I had. My husband thinks I'm a genius. No, DeV is!

just so everyone is aware... this doesn't work anymore. you cannot use Google voice on any analog telephone adapter anymore.

okay this time sound on video is excellent. will be purchasing it can"t wait to get it. great video

That phone conversation was definitely legit, not staged at all... nice video though.

I just wanna say thanks you. It was a little harder then u made it sound but totally worth it. Now im saving $10 per month

Good vid. Thanks for the info bro. Never mind the trolls, that can find fault in anything, but their life choices.

No not boring DeV your video is what I was looking for keeping my number and scraping my land line also the usefull info of how to go about talking to the provider thanks

This comment is proof that I was here way before dev was popular.

Will you remember me when you get famous?

This is of course an older video but people will still be viewing it for a time and I still wanted to chime in on the topic (because land lines are not dead yet) and add a perspective that I think many miss (This is a longer post, warning): There is still one thing about land lines that as old as the tech is, is still superior to all others even today - it's stability. In many situations where VOIP and cellular services will go down (disasters, weather, etc), land lines many times will continue to work. They don't need electricity, and many times the lines are protected from the elements. There have been several instances in my life where my land line continued to work when all others died. I'll give two quick examples below... 1) Twice we've had bad ice storms in my area (suburbs of Atlanta) that caused power to go out for many days. People's VOIP phones go out immediately or within hours if they have a backup battery. Within 3 days their cellular service gets spotty or goes out completely, as the cell towers with generator backups go down, and the carriers aren't able to refuel their generators promptly. But... my land line kept working. This has happened twice in my area and both times literally nearly everyone in my neighborhood wound up at my house to use my land line - the only working phone around the immediate area except for one other. Another time a tornado took out a cell tower nearby - along again with power. Bingo - the land line kept working. Hurricane Sandy in the NYC/NJ area a few years back did the same thing - all VOIP and cellular went down but the few land lines connected to the pay phones that were left? Kept working. The Mayor at the time ordered MORE land line based phones installed after that as a result. You get the point. Land lines don't necessarily make sense for *everyone* to have anymore. But it would be foolish to completely dismiss and get rid of the technology, until such time that VOIP/Cellular systems can be made to be just as stable as they are - and so far they're not close. Until that time they're still handy, so even if you don't use one yourself, please don't support AT&T's effort to have all of them dismantled.

...and here we are, four years later in 2020, in a middle of a global health crisis, watching your video! Very informative and God, I need to catch up! What microphone is that? It sounds AMAZING! BEST sound I've gotten from a video on KZfaq EVER! Let me know, please! I'm about to buy one for my classes; computer mic is crap! Great job, man!

Hey! You uploaded again! Hopefully you can upload more frequent now! Enjoyed the video!

Your videos are amazing! Glad to be a pretty early sub because I think this channel will blow up some day :D

Awesome! Really thinking about showing this to my grandparents since they pay way too much for internet and landline. Now theyre going to pay less, but this is even better!!

Great material, DeV! Really informative. I would suggest a quick headsup for your followers: landlines work independently from the power grid. So if there are power outages on your area, and suppose there´s no power, and your cell or families' mobiles' have run out and need to reach them in case of an emergency there'll be a problem. DeV, in your opinion, what would be a workable solution? A No-Break system? JUst unplug from the Obi box, and hook it back up to the phone outlet? Thanks!

Although Magic Jack isn't free, it does have a box that plugs into your router so your computer doesn't have to stay on 24/7 so you don't miss a call. But when my paid subscription is up I just might switch to Google voice. It's just a second line I use on my desk anyway so no need to migrate the number, I'm fine with a new one. Magic Jack does have a nice feature that when I get a voice mail it sends me an e--mail with the message attached so I always know within a minute of getting it.

With Majic Jack you dont leave your computer on all night only your modem. I have had mine for 3 years and it works fine .

I was using Google Voice over VOIP using Obi wired into an office phone system, which I set up myself, about 5 years ago. I was renting office space and I just set up my little system in the server room and plugged it in and my personal line routed right into the same phone system everyone else used. It worked just like all the regular office phone numbers. It was great. Not too hard to set up, either.

Thank you for this video. I have Google voice but needed a landline for my business.

Does this work in the UK too? Had a look on there and it only seems to be standard VOIP stuff, like you can only call people who use google hangouts. etc

I don't need this but I'll still watch this because your a good youtuber

Well done my son. You are a great speaker! How was the free trip? Funny.

Used the info provided here and learned that currently Google Voice will port Cellular numbers or lines NOT a Landline phone line. Had to port the Landline number to a cell carrier and a day later the number was valid as a Cell number. A Google Voice verification call is made to your Cell line (the ported one) for service verification and once that checks your number is fully OK for porting. I had no problems after that.

Wow are you actually using a smartphone as a camera? Impressive

Thanks... Not very easy and not a quick process (7 Days) but I did follow your steps and they worked. Longest part was porting the landline to a tracfone and then to Google. Now I only pay for internet. Cut Cable TV and the Phone. Bill went from $215 to $74.

Great video. Very, very informative. It covers most of what I needed to know about doing the same thing. Love the advice about tactics in how to inform the cable company. What I need to know now is how to hook up the six extensions in the house so I can use any of them. I currently have Verizon and it has a battery backup. That has been great during power outages. Any tips or leads on how to take care of that would be appreciated.

Land lines are handy when your mobile phone battery is depleted, or when your mobile phone is lost, stolen, or broken. If you have a problem with your mobile phone you can call your provider (phone service provider or cell phone provider) on your land line and have them talk you through fixing the problem with your mobile phone service (or with the mobile phone itself). This video is very helpful and I may consider porting my landline over to Google Voice. (I already have a Google Voice number, but for the many places that have my land line number, it would be helpful to have a second Google Voice number. I would just associate it with one of my other GMail accounts.)

Hey Dev! Been watching your last few videos and I think you can really become a major channel like Linus or MKBHD :) Keep striving and keep the videos up :)

You have an amazing voice for video demos or audio books. I hope your are banking on it if not what are you waiting for :)

Wow!! Ty...going to chk into MJ again. Great info, and a new sub here! 🤜🤛

I appreciate you wanting to share your phone service life story I was looking for a video of good phone deal though

Great job! Now, how do I cut out my carrier-based home internet provider?

I love videos like this. Just reading the comments makes my day.

When my parents moved they had to switch from Comcast to Cox, but they wanted to keep their home phone number that they've had for over 20 years. So I ported it to Tmobile from Comcast, then from Tmobile to Google Voice. Hooked up an Obihai to their Cox internet, signed up for Anveo 911 service, and it works like butter.

God bless you! I love you man.

I love the way you explained all this, would it be ok if I linked you to my blog so others can enjoy your video?

your editing is so goooooooooooooood :)

Got this message when I tried the Google Voice Porting tool - "Please note: at this time, number porting to Google Voice is not available for land line numbers or corporate mobile numbers." ?

I just love watching you toss that garbage over your shoulder. I'll be doing the same thing as soon as I get my own OB1. I'm a Chromebook user anyway and like Google and use it for most of my stuff,Although I've never used google voice.I have since subscribe to you and gave you a big thumbs up, nice to meet you.

Is this really this guy's voice? It's amazing. He could work as a computer voice without having to modulate anything!

I thought you were a robot until you showed your face at the mic.

Just subscribed. I’m barely surviving, I need every penny I can save. Now, I just have to get my son to watch the video and so all this for me.

you dont have to keep your comptuer on all the time runs off the rotuer . this is cool deal thanks for sharing i did not know this .

That’s a “whole lota busy going on!” Geez.. Larry

But you know you don't have to plug your magicjack into the PC anymore right? Could just plug it into the router and it will work. This was supported long before you made this video, before anyone says look at the date.

Dude, you don’t sound anything like I would expect you to sound like. But please don’t be offended lol. Your voice is pure gold. Hope you have the opportunity to use it to it’s full potential.

All the phone lines are dead somehow in my house. Literally dead. No sign, nothing. So i may switch to the Obi. Great video. Everything was straight foward.

You've got a very soothing 'teacher voice'.. I kept drifting off and having to rewind lol.

Are you going to make editing tutorials? Pls do, you're an amazing editor!!

I fax through Google Voice using the Obi200, it's a little slow, but it does work. Nice thing is you can set a second google number to the thing and add a special ring that your fax can answer. It's a neat box, glad I have it. A few years ago my DSL line got severed just as fiberoptics were being piped through my front yard, so I got onto the Gigabit Bandwagon, screw DSL! Gigabit is awesome!

I wished I've watched your video sooner. Will definitely explore the possibilities of the Obihai. Thank you.

Thing is with google services is you don't know if its going to still exist tomorrow...

I want your keyboard!!! It is AWESOME!

Thanks Dev! I'm in the process of moving to a new home and need to cut cost. It's 2020 and I'm still bundling landline and internet. I needed a clue. LOL!

Good video. Here in Ontario, Canada, one alternative to using a 911 service like mentioned in the video is simply to call the Ontario Provincial Police's 800 number. When they pick up, tell them that you need to be transferred to 911 & they will do it.

The call sounded scripted but still a great video

Here's a couple things I'd like to point out if you are watching in 2019: 1. Not sure if Obihai still works, but I looked into setting up my own Asterisk PBX on Google voice last year, but Google yanked support for it and updated their EULA to prohibit it. 2. If you have a Magic Jack Plus or newer, you can use it with or without a computer. You simply connect it to your modem with ethernet your set to not need a PC. It's great if you travel out of country too. Simply load the app on your cell phone or take the MJ with you. Lastly, I hooked my MJ into my home's POTS lines so it powers every jack in the house. It was as easy as disconnecting from the street and plugging the MJ into on of the phone jacks in the house. I used a splitter on this jack so I could still have a phone plugged into it too. The only downside to this is that if you plug in to many phones, the volume and quality gets week. You also want to use phones with electronic ringers with the ring volume on low as that can stress the MJ too. I've looked for a booster to remedy this, but have not found one. One work around is to use cordless phones as they are self powered.

I utilize MagicJack for my OUTWATS. Similar to the OBI200, the MJ VOIP dongle doesn't require being connected to a computer anymore, but can be when traveling, for it also connects to Ethernet via Cat5, is powered by a mains wall wart on UPS and drives the phone connection which in my case is wired to the whole house on the second pair making it line two. Do remember to disconnect that pair from the MaBell copperloop at the junction box so MagicJack is not powering the phone poles all the way back to the central office - the MagicJack dongle has enough power to ring the house but not the world. I use the forwarding feature of MagicJack to send return calls to GoogleVoice to take advantage of each bonus feature. I enjoy getting texts of voice messages, record incoming call with a press of the 4 key and GV ringing a multitude of devices, mobile phones, laptops and tablets with Hangouts as well as TextNowk and the wired to the wall MaBell copper loop original to the house. I'm satisfied with the DSL bandwith - not saving any money there but I've appreciated the stability of that number since 1956. Other legacy devices work well such as DSL, Fax, Watson, answering service and 911. Being not interested in saving money, I considered 100% VOIP, but GoogleVoice refuses to forward to GoogleVoice, so this hybrid arrangement suits me fine and I find comfort in the stability and reliability wired to the wall copperloop MaBell and enjoyed internet and phone service during power outages as a UPS drives all my phone/internet equipment, but not the computers or TV - I'm good with laptop/tablet/mobile battery power. The plan was to charge the COMS UPS with solar, I have the gear, just not the yet the effort.

Very good explaining / advice. 👍🏻

Dev: Thanks for the excellent advice! I do disagree with the landline having poor quality. Landline phones to me, have MUCH BETTER FIDELITY!

I generally agree with your statement about being super nice to the cable reps, that's usually my goal on those calls. I will say though that it just took 12 phone calls and 5 hours of my time to get my bill straightened out with Verizon, and it wasn't until I WASN'T nice (the dude called me a liar repeatedly even though I have all of the emails and dates to give him) that they actually seem to have it right. So...your mileage may vary.

Thank you, well done. Is there a version where you can call International?

Magic Jack stopped having to be tied to your computer back in 2013, maybe sooner, using direct wifi and a device dongle plugged directly into an electrical outlet with a phone jack for your base station. They had to change the data scheme to accommodate this so you could no longer use the older device. I had both.

you must have worked as one of us or knew someone who did lol thank you for saying to be nice :-) it really does make everyone easier to work with

Magic jack. 35 bucks for the WHOLE YEAR. (had it for 3 years now)

Well, It started out pretty interesting. But as he started talking faster, then faster, then faster I started to glaze over and although I listened all the way to the end. I retained so little I think it would take me days to ever get it done! Thanks for trying and good luck to anyone who gets this done!

Anyone from United Kingdom ported their Lan line number using this chaps method with Virgin Media? Nice video buddy 👊

i pay 10$ for 1gb/s (Romania lul)

At time 10:10 "and when I was done with this I just returned it to Target and got my money back" So tell us how were you able to remove the SIM card from its holder,install the T-Mobil SIM card in your phone and and than return it to Target?

👍it is working , thank you for your tips , brilliant .

I have gone google voice and back-wired my phone system. Works great and thanks for the insight! Only using FIOS 500/500 and have no problems what so ever

You really saved $7 and increased your streaming.👀

Please clarify the porting to T-Mobile. You say all you need is a sim starter kit but when I went to the t-Mobile site, they require the IMEI # from an actual cell phone too. How did you get around this?

I love your voice and I love documentaries, you should be a Documentary narrator.

For UK viewers currently only virgin media offers broadband only deals without line rental and it is not in every area,you have to put your postcode on their website to run a check.