The little box pictured below is an OBI200, a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solution for those of us (not me) who want to hold on to their landline phone number but not pay the high prices the big phone companies charge. You connect the box to the Internet with either an ethernet cable or a USB WiFi adapter and connect your telephone to the Phone port.
This solution used to be supported by Google Voice and provided a free (I love free) service. But last November Google announced it was no longer supporting this solution. While it would continue to work for some unknown length of time, another VoIP provider would eventually be needed. Enter Anveo (see the link below) which supports the OBI200 (and many others) and for about $99.99/year gets you 1,000 minutes per month, voice mail, and text messages (try that on an old-fashioned telephone line).
Big shout out to my older brother for smoothly making this transition. If he can do it, so can you.
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