Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 12:14 AM EST

By Jeb Brilliant

I decided to do a comparison of Phone.com Home Phone Plus service against my local provider after reading that “Nearly 2/3 of US consumers switched to a cheaper household products” in the Wall Street Journal. I don’t want to name the local provider so for the sake of this post we’ll call them Horizon.

Horizon charges $54.99/month plus tax with a 30 day contract but they did say there’s a possibility I could get lucky and get a discount to $39.99 if I talk with a nice rep. Huh? so it’s luck??? Anyways Horizon offers:
• Caller ID
• Call Waiting
• 3 Way Calling
• Voicemail

Phone.com charges $19.88/month plus tax with no yearly contract. There’s a 1 time $29.95 fee for the ATA if you need one (it allows you to connect your regular home phone to the Phone.com service). Phone.com offers a whole list of features including everything Horizon offers and
• Caller ID
• Call Waiting
• 3 Way Calling
• Voicemail
• Simultaneous Ring (have more then just your home phone ring when you get a call)
• Call forwarding (Forward all incoming calls to another number)

And a whole list of other features which you can read about HERE.

So now that we have a clear picture what does it really mean? It means that Phone.com is going to be $35.11 cheaper/month for me (not including taxes). So why aren’t you switching? What could it be that’s holding you back? Anything at all? I called Horizon back a second time to go through their list of features again and ask them if there were any persuading factors and you know what they told me? That there weren’t any. I couldn’t even get the guy to tell me Horizon was any better then any other service. I straight forward asked him and he wouldn’t say it.

I can’t imagine being with a phone company that didn’t think they were the best and didn’t care to tell their potential customers that. Back to the point, if you want to save $35.11/month or $421.32/ year then switch to Phone.com. You will get the BEST phone service around at the best price and 24/7 customer service. You’ll also get to keep your current telephone number and set up (if you’re like me it’s a cordless telephone system) and just need to plug your home phone into the ATA and the ATA in to your router.

Nothing should be stopping you now, go get the BEST phone service available and save money while doing it. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to email me Jeb@Phone.com.