It is rare to see any mentions of an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) here in this forum. So, I thought perhaps it is not a common device used by anyone here, except me.
Anyway, I wanted to share here with you about the clearance of this Vonage Box VoIP Phone Adapter US 98¢ from any of your local Walmart stores (if it still has some in stock). It is basically a customized Grandstream HT-802 (specs) device with 2x RJ-11 ports and runs on a Linux OS. Its basic functionality is to connect any old Plain Old Telephone Station (POTS) and/or a cordless phone for placing/receiving phone calls over Internet. Even though this device is customized (locked) to Vonage, it can be simply un-customized (unlocked) to use with any Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) service providers and/or any open-source digital PBX system, i.e. Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, YATE, etc. With any of this digital PBX systems that supports Google Voice (GV) through XMPP for free US phone calls, one practically can have a free US telephone system sans any monthly fee. Please beware that Google is retiring the XMPP used by its GV and I don't keep track how these open-source digital PBX systems will keep up with this change to support GV with its new voice platform in the future.
So, if you are in a VoIP thing, then this is really a great deal, especially if any of your local Walmart stores still has it on clearance for 98¢ a pug. Or, since it runs Linux, perhaps you can try to grab some and port debian OS to run on this device and turn it into a digital PBX system, too.
Anyway, I wanted to share here with you about the clearance of this Vonage Box VoIP Phone Adapter US 98¢ from any of your local Walmart stores (if it still has some in stock). It is basically a customized Grandstream HT-802 (specs) device with 2x RJ-11 ports and runs on a Linux OS. Its basic functionality is to connect any old Plain Old Telephone Station (POTS) and/or a cordless phone for placing/receiving phone calls over Internet. Even though this device is customized (locked) to Vonage, it can be simply un-customized (unlocked) to use with any Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) service providers and/or any open-source digital PBX system, i.e. Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, YATE, etc. With any of this digital PBX systems that supports Google Voice (GV) through XMPP for free US phone calls, one practically can have a free US telephone system sans any monthly fee. Please beware that Google is retiring the XMPP used by its GV and I don't keep track how these open-source digital PBX systems will keep up with this change to support GV with its new voice platform in the future.
So, if you are in a VoIP thing, then this is really a great deal, especially if any of your local Walmart stores still has it on clearance for 98¢ a pug. Or, since it runs Linux, perhaps you can try to grab some and port debian OS to run on this device and turn it into a digital PBX system, too.