Is it possible to get “house phone” to with just having fiber service ?

There are Voice Over IP services like Vonage that use your Internet connection, but I believe it's $15 a month too. There used to be another one call Magic Jack, I think, that was cheap/free because it installed adware on your PC to work. So there are options but getting the $15 a month line from your current provider is probably the simplest solution.

I have Ooma an internet based phone system for my home based business. Ooma just charges local taxes and service fees each month. My bill is $4.84 a month. Plug the Ooma box into your router and into your house phone wiring and every phone jack in the house will work with whatever phone you chose to use. I bought a Ooma refurbished unit from Amazon for $49. I have been using it for 4-5 years with no problem unless my Comcast internet goes down which is rare.

Ooma is the answer. I bought one of their lifetime deals about a decade ago. Still have and use it occasionally.

As far as basic “landline” service, I believe Ma Bell (my employer) will do it as an add on to existing service for $10 a month. Our consumer phone service is about 98% voip at this point, so the dial tone starts at our modem/gateway and back feeds from there into your home wiring or, more commonly, into your cordless phone base. And, since our service is voip, it’s not gonna be significantly different quality-wise between us, Ooma, magicjack, etc.

One thing that our system will do is prioritize phone traffic on your network so that if the hsia is struggling (due to a line impairment or something), the phone traffic will get highest priority. That’s something that would take a little bit of network engineering to match with the third party providers. But, for just about every consumer-based application, voip is voip is voip.

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Ooma

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This. Had it for years. Worked perfectly.

Thanks for all replies..will check them out.

Edited to add I look up the ooma system somebody recommended and think I will give it a try.

I transferred my land line number to Google voice, and use a obihai adapter to connect to my wireless phone base. No monthly fees. I don't think I could use it to call 911 though. Old cell phones can be used to call 911 even if they aren't active.