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25 Aug 2018, 7:48 pm

I communicate mostly by email, but I'd like to have a 'phone again. My last VOIP provider, Magic Jack, was quite reasonable, but they wasted many days of my life spread over several months trying to avoid a diagnosis of a bad dongle causing my service to deteriorate badly. If they had been up-front about it, I might have bought another, but they wouldn't even offer an extended warranty.
However, now I can't find any new options under about $30 a month, which seems ridiculous. Any recommendations?



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26 Aug 2018, 4:44 pm

Fongo. Totally free talk and text. You get your own phone number.



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26 Aug 2018, 7:51 pm

Noca wrote:
Fongo. Totally free talk and text. You get your own phone number.


I don't have a smartphone; I have a desktop on a cable ISP.



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30 Aug 2018, 10:50 am

There are programs that allow you to run android apps on windows. Just use them to load fongo?



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30 Aug 2018, 10:55 am

Noca wrote:
There are programs that allow you to run android apps on windows. Just use them to load fongo?


I'm on Linux. My previous two 'phone systems ran from a dongle on my cable modem, although the Magic Jack was also mobile.