I have to agree with Steve. A telephone is a "bare essential" in the household, especially one with kids and/or parents/inlaws who may have a medical emergency at any time.

Yes, we have cell phones, but in a need of crisis, play date, or whatever, playing round robin with phone numbers to get a hold of someone sometimes isn't an option.

Luckily, after a few months of issues/instability, VOIPo support and I have worked out the issues and now I'm stable (no known outages for about a month).

-Craig