If you don't use the phone much, then it doesn't matter which service provider you use. Google Voice works fine. I've been using it for the large majority of my calls for years. However, to emphasize the previous posts about 911 service, I would strongly advise signing up for E911 service from Callcentric (Google Voice on SP1 and Callcentric on SP2). It is a very bad idea to have a land line telephone sitting around, with no 911 service. You might remember that it won't work, but in a true emergency, especially if YOU are the person having a medical or police emergency, you may not be thinking straight, or you may be unconscious or in shock, and you, or whoever else happens to pick up that phone to call 911 will waste precious minutes trying and retrying to call 911, to no avail. The cost is so low as to be a no-brainer to subscribe.