Land line phone cable from my house?

Question

I am thinking about getting an residential ADSL Internet and VOIP phone.

However, my house is a new house and I don't have any active land line. I don't even have that Bell box (Network Interface Point - demarcation point) for my house. So I am not sure if I have any phone cable going from my house to outside...

Please advice

Answer 1

we do not put phone service at new homes anymore without a service order from the new homeowner.  YOU must call and order service before we will put the cable and NID(network interface device) on the back of your house.

If your ph. company does not offer ADSL at your address, your cable company may offer broadband service , check with them.

Answer 2

if your home is newly constructed, more then likely the home has been prewired for telephone and cable, almost all new constructions that I have done work in are prewired by the contractor, the wiring is normally run to a common point in the basement, or somewhere outside the home, usually left with several feet of slack rolled up...

as for getting "Dry" or "naked" DSL, with out a phone number to verify your address you may have a difficult time getting the order thru...

unless FiOS is in your area, or is an option, then your best choice would be to get cable modem service from your cable provider, it is much faster then DSL... (and is a pretty good deal IF you bundle it with TV and there VoIP service)

you will want the most bandwidth that you can afford for VoIP, so that you will get the best QoS voice service, and be able to use your connection for other PC web applications such as video.

all VoIP carriers are not equal..

the best choice is that from the broadband provider, either cable company provided VoIP, or Voicewing from Verizon if you are getting DSL/FiOS as they are the ones who own the connection between your home, and there telephone equiptment in there offices, and can guarantee QoS, other VoIP providers can not offer this QoS for voice packets traveling over the internet, as there priority is equal to the rest of the data traffic on your internet connection..

Answer 3

For A/DSL you will need a network interface point (bell box).  Usually they are put in regardless of desire at time of construction.  If not - they will be added at no cost - to the outside of the residence.  For DSL you will need this.  If you are looking at VOIP through a cable provider this

Answer 4

Call your phone company and see if they even have ADSL available at you address. my company (AT&T) did'nt have it available for years in my area. Phone line and ADSL installation is usally free,at least it was for me.

A direct call to you phone company is you best source of information, trust me.