Eric, over at A Penny Closer , pointed out that if you aren’t going to make very many calls on your broadband phone system, then you should sign up with a cheap voip company like Callcentric.
Callcentric offers 5 different plans, and one of them lets you just pay $1.95 per month for a regular phone number, and then just pay for the time you use the service. They also offer unlimited local and long distance phone service for $19.95 per month, just like most of the other companies out there. The thing that most people don’t realize, is that if they’re paying $19.95 per month for unlimited service, that they would save money by going with the $1.95 plan if they made less than 15.5 hours worth of calls per month. Or, if you use a company that charges $24.95 per month, you could make almost 20 hours worth of calls.