I had the same problem, I live in one state, my family and my wifes family all lived in another state. So my Veri$on bill was outrageous.
Solutions, almost 2 years ago now, I switched to Vonage, using my local cable provider for broadband access.
The end result is rock solid service that has only gone down in price and up in features, service and quality, not to say it was bad to begin with.
I have no land line service and I enabled the 911 service that is part ov vonage, that is that it calls geographically closet location and you need to tell them your address.
As for soft phones , vonage offers a soft phone with a seperate number and seperate services with 500 minutes for an additional 9.99 a month.
My recomendation is this solution, good luck.
I have to disagree strongly. I currently work in a shoop that develops applications in.NET and J2EE and we are always comparing and contrasting.
The real conclusion that we find is that Eclipse, ANT, XDoclet and JBoss make a much more usable and more powerful deveopment environment than anything available for Windows.
Our J2EE applications usually have a shorter time to market and a much happier customer when they don't feel like they have been taken avantage of in licensing fees.
However this holds true for J2EE in itself, there overall cost is greatly impacted by using JBoss and MySQL instead of Weblogix and Oracle(for example). It is all in how and what you are comparing.
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I had the same problem, I live in one state, my family and my wifes family all lived in another state. So my Veri$on bill was outrageous. Solutions, almost 2 years ago now, I switched to Vonage, using my local cable provider for broadband access. The end result is rock solid service that has only gone down in price and up in features, service and quality, not to say it was bad to begin with. I have no land line service and I enabled the 911 service that is part ov vonage, that is that it calls geographically closet location and you need to tell them your address. As for soft phones , vonage offers a soft phone with a seperate number and seperate services with 500 minutes for an additional 9.99 a month. My recomendation is this solution, good luck.
I have to disagree strongly. I currently work in a shoop that develops applications in .NET and J2EE and we are always comparing and contrasting.
The real conclusion that we find is that Eclipse, ANT, XDoclet and JBoss make a much more usable and more powerful deveopment environment than anything available for Windows.
Our J2EE applications usually have a shorter time to market and a much happier customer when they don't feel like they have been taken avantage of in licensing fees.
However this holds true for J2EE in itself, there overall cost is greatly impacted by using JBoss and MySQL instead of Weblogix and Oracle(for example). It is all in how and what you are comparing.