If I was to have my own plan, it would be a cellular, home, and fax/voicemail. The Lines will also have Caller ID+ which will give me the name of the caller. The send fax add-on will allow me to send faxes when the need will arise. The plan above will reduce the number of service providers I will have from 3 down to 1 which will mean 1 bill, and 1 charge rather than 3. The plan will look as follows:
$25 – 4G Plan (878)
$10 – Toll-Free Forwarding Line (855)
$10 – VOIP Plan (412)
$10 – Caller ID+
$5 – Incoming eFax/Voicemail (724)
$5 – Send Fax
$65 – Total
I will attempt to acquire 2 additional numbers which will likely have to be purchased from the current owners. This will be a 724 number, and an 878 number. The service will give me everything I will need to provide with all of the features I currently have. Due to my Ideal Phone Setup, and assuming I can acquire the 2 numbers I would want, there will be some shuffling of lines.
While I currently have 5G support on my current phone, I have turned it off for battery reasons. I have been doing well enough with my phone using the 4G service, so I see no need to acquire the 5G plan. I will still use my primary cellular phone, and that currently uses eSIM. This will be a matter of deleting the eSIM from the old provider, and activating the eSIM with my phone service. I will have a VOIP plan. Since my phone service will use the standard SIP system for connecting calls, I can use just about any device I will wish (including my WP825). This is in addition to my Caller ID+ feature, and with unified voicemail, I don’t have to juggle through voicemail services, and can rely on just one no matter which line is called.
The toll-free forwarding line will forward calls to both my home phone, and my cellular phone. This will allow me to answer whichever phone I feel is the best to answer. However, I will have to pay an incoming rate for such calls. This will require the need to have money in a pool of funds that would handle toll-free numbers, and international dialing. The fax/voicemail line will accept incoming faxes to where it will send it as a .pdf file to me, and voicemail which will use the unified voicemail system. I will choose to do this for simplicity reasons. In addition to receiving faxes, I will also be able to send faxes from my email client.