We're considering getting fixed line broadband again as well as or instead of fixed wireless (we were on ADSL in the past but performance ended up awful in our rural area). There has been a fairly recent VDSL upgrade for our cabinet but we are near the edge of the coverage area on the Chorus map so I'm not sure if the achievable connection would be worth it for our primary service in comparison with our wireless provider. Still, the cost margin of having a broadband + voip option isn't that much more than our PSTN line with Spark which seems to be increasing in cost fairly regularly and has lost the reminder call feature which we used regularly each day. We live in an area with patchy cell phone coverage and unreliable power, so a PSTN line has been an important part of having redundant options but with the way things are going it looks like it would be better to be proactive about moving away from PSTN. If we had a VOIP solution that could be used with multiple handsets and on different networks, that would give us some redundancy.

It looks like 2degrees could be a good option (would like a service that the non techie members of the family could contact for support if need be), I've seen talk from a few years ago that people have used it with a variety of soft phones. Is that still the case and do they get simultaneous ringing? This would be handy as our property has much wider WiFi coverage than our DECT handsets.

Any other suggestions gladly received though.