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by Daviey 389 days ago
What's your criteria for the 3?

For hardware, any of these should be sufficient (as they support pulse dialing):

  - Minitar MVA11A
  - Grandstream HT502 & GXW-4008
  - Primus Lingo iAN-02EX
  - Innomedia MTA6328-2Re
  - Motorola VT-1005
  - Audio Codes MP-114 FXO
  - Digium IAXy s101i
  - Linksys RTP300  (Before firmware version 3 I believe)
(Source: https://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=20...)

For ease and cost, you can get connectivity for almost free (depending on the country) - should just need to add the SIP/IAX login details, so what is your criteria?
1 comments
reaperducer 388 days ago
It's been at least four years since I looked, which U.S. services do you recommend?

I only use my phone for voice calls three or four times a year, so cheap is important. But my wife will use it, so reliability is important.

If I could get something for $10/month, that would be ideal.

The list you pulled from that forum is seven years old, and only one of the five boxes I tried to find is still available.

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jasonjayr 388 days ago
https://voip.ms is running my "land line" to the house, really just camping on a number we've had for years and is used in a bunch of important accounts, and to give out as a number to companies or people I do not want ringing my cell phone.

I think I pay USD $20 every 4-5 months to top it off. (about 3-5 inbound calls a day, and maybe 1-2 outbound calls every week or so) ATA adapters are relatively cheap to come by, which should be able to configured directly to voip.ms. I run a full FreePBX in my homelab for my connection: my ATA connects to that instead, and is connected to a cheap analog cordless phone.

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