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There are a lot of people who are getting tired of their phone companies. This is definitely understandable considering the way that the costs associated with having a home phone line have gone up over the past decade. After all, a fairly basic calling plan now costs about twice what it did just a decade ago! Fortunately there is an alternative and it comes from a surprising place: the cable TV industry. Time Warner Cable in particular is worth taking a look at when it comes to getting a decent home phone line for a reasonable price. There are a number of features that Time Warner Cable includes in its basic home phone plan that make it a good value. These features include caller ID, call forwarding, and call waiting. The fact that all of those are included in a plan that costs about the same as a basic plan from a traditional phone company is what makes it a good deal. The fact that the plan also includes unlimited long distance to calls made to numbers in the United States and Canada- both in terms of number of calls and total duration of those calls- makes this calling plan a really smart way to save money. It's also possible to add voice mail onto the plan as well.

There are a number of different ways to take advantage of all of the calling features that are included in a plan from Time Warner Cable. For example, Caller ID will display the number and often the name of whoever is calling you on a screen. Once this feature is enabled, you can have the number displayed on a screen next to your phone, an LCD screen on the phone itself if you happen to use a model with that feature, or even your TV screen. With all of those ways to see who's calling you at any given time, you can make an informed decision about whether or not to answer the call.

Of course there's always the possibility that a number that's being used to call you could be unlisted or that you don't recognize the name or the number associated with it. Under those situations, you don't necessarily want to miss out on the call, but you don't necessarily want to pick it up either. Under those circumstances, the voice mail feature that's offered by Time Warner Cable is a very useful tool. If you don't want to miss a call, but don't feel like picking it up for whatever reason, you can just let the voice mail take care of it.

Call Forwarding is probably the least used feature offered by Time Warner Cable on its digital phone plans, but it can be a very useful tool under the right circumstances. That's because call forwarding will enable you to make sure that any calls to your home number ring through to another number of your choice. It's an especially useful feature to take advantage of when you think you might receive an important call, but need to be at work or are traveling.

Time Warner Cable proves that you don't have to be at the mercy of the phone company anymore.