With the introduction of cell phones, over the years, traditional home phones and landline phones have lost their demand and value. Despite the decreasing number of users, many people still rely on non-cellular home phone services. Many telecommunications companies still provide a wide variety of traditional home phone and landline phone services. Today, we will discuss the offers provided by these telecommunication companies and understand the differences in their offerings to help you choose the right service provider for your home phone needs.

• Verizon
  This company provides both home phone and mobile phone services. Verizon is mostly popular for its wireless cell phone plans, Verizon residential is also one of the best home phone companies offering Internet and television services. It also offers residential landline services for local, national and international calling. Verizon has an interesting calling plan known as Freedom Unlimited which offers unlimited local and long-distance calling. It is famous for its bundle pack that includes Internet, television cable and landline services for the price of around $84.99 per month. It also offers landline-only packages that start from just about $49.99 per month.

• Vonage
  Vonage is one of the home phone providers that is a little different from other average landline service providers. Vonage uses a different technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol. This technology allows you to make calls over the Internet. According to the company’s website, “Vonage routes your calls over the internet”. All you need to have is a high-speed Internet connection and a Vonage phone adapter. Vonage does not require any annual plans contract like other service providers out there in the market. Plans of Vonage start from as low as $9.99 up to $34.99 per month and are featured with caller ID and call waiting.

• AT&T
  This is also a publicly traded company and has its headquarters in Dallas. It is one of the best home phone companies with a service record of over 140 years in the communication industry. Apart from its main domain it also operates several smaller home phone companies such as Indiana Bell, Michigan Bell, Pacific Bell, etc. AT&T offers almost every kind of communication service including home phone, cellular, landline, the Internet as well as television services both for personal and corporate use. Customers opting for two or more services from AT&T are entitled to huge discounts. Landline-only plans range from $16 to $40 per month.

• Qwest
  Like Vonage and AT&T, Qwest is also a home phone company that provides landline services as well as television, Internet, and wireless services. There are basically two home phone plans available with Qwest. One is the basic home phone plan starting from $30 per month that will only provide you with unlimited local calling and the choice of up to 10 calling features such as voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, etc. The other plan starts at $35 per month that also includes a choice of up to 10 calling features along with unlimited local and long-distance calling.

Thanks to the presence of various home phone companies, finding suitable plans is not a tough matter. Whatever plan you pick, make sure you find the right network coverage as well as the support system in case your phone or landline becomes unresponsive. For that, you need to perform a little research before you opt for a certain landline or home phone service provider.