[aaelghat]

I've been a customer of Broadvoice for about two years and have a SPA 2000. I've maintained my POTS line, and will continue to do so, and I have a few questions:

1) I want to be able to answer/receive calls from both phone lines (POTS & VOIP) from one cordless phone. What do I need to do? Do I need to buy a 2 line phone? Do I need to buy an SPA 3000 or install asterisk@home?

2) I'm looking at an expandable Uniden 5.4 Ghz 2 line cordless phone but it doesn't have an answering machine. Is there a way I can program things so that POTS callers leave a message on my Broadvoice VM? Again, do I need an SPA 3000 or install Asterisk@Home?

3) I'd like to be able to get emails sent to me every time there is an incoming call on my POTS line. Same questionsas above - how can I make that happen? WIll upgrading to the SPA 3000 allow me to do that, or an installation of asterisk@home?

Thanks in advance.

[PhoneBoy]

You will need to buy a two-line cordless phone or use Call Forwarding on BroadVoice to forward calls to your PSTN line, or get a SPA3000 to combine the two lines.

The only way you can get your PSTN line to forward calls to your BroadVoice VM is to get something like "Call Forward Busy/No Answer" from your PSTN provider, which will forward the call to your BroadVoice number.

If you want to get email when someone calls your PSTN line, good luck. PhoneGnome will do it, but only if they leave a message on voicemail (and it would be a seperate box of course).