1. have regular phone (home phone that plugs into a regular phone jack)
2. have internet connection
3. get a router that has phone jack (e.g. Linksys  RT31P2 http://www.canadianvoipstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=318)
4. plug phone into router, plug router into internet connection
5. get a VOIP account with a SIP friendly account (e.g. gizmo project: http://www.google.com/gizmo5/)
6. note your SIP access number
7. tell friends access number
8. get friends to look up a local call-in number (e.g. cities all over the world have access numbers: http://www.sipbroker.com/sipbroker/action/pstnNumbers)
9. get friend to dial local call-in, then punch in your SIP id, your phone will magically ring

Just leave your voip router connected to your internet connection and it will work. No computer needed. This is completely FREE to receive calls.

Gizmo5, recently acquired by Google, also allows you to make cheap long distance calls (like Skype). So the same phone works to place VOIP long distance calls.

Enjoy,

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Get rid of your landline, still use landline phone to place calls via cell

• Use landline phones at home to make calls via the cell phone
• Great for parents who love being corded

Do this by:

• Buy this thing (about $160)
• Cancel landline plan
• Plug into phone jack at home
• Connect via bluetooth to cell
• Viola, when cell is near this thing, landlines will ring when cell rings, pick up landlines and it will use cell to make calls

Why good

• Cancel landline (save $)
• Use landline phones to make cell calls (save brain cells)
• Still use landline phones at home (save feeling bad about not being able to use retro phones at home)