Adding POTS but already using Vonage throughout house

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I have been a Vonage customer since March 2005. Before that, I was a Time Warner Cable Digital Phone Customer. I did it that way becasue TWC had free installation, and they disconnected my outside box from the Verizon line. They actually took the wires from the outside box, and put them into another box right next to it.
I would like to add a bare bones POTS line to the house which will run me with taxes $15. I need a second line for incoming calls only.

Verizon will install it for $55, and then for another $95 they will add a jack inside my house. I do not want them to touch the existing outside box. If I do this, will they add a new outside box, and then wire it to one new jack inside my house that is not connected to the rest of the jacks?
Thanks

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lsg0622 wrote:

I have been a Vonage customer since March 2005. Before that, I was a Time Warner Cable Digital Phone Customer. I did it that way becasue TWC had free installation, and they disconnected my outside box from the Verizon line. They actually took the wires from the outside box, and put them into another box right next to it.
I would like to add a bare bones POTS line to the house which will run me with taxes $15. I need a second line for incoming calls only.

Verizon will install it for $55, and then for another $95 they will add a jack inside my house. I do not want them to touch the existing outside box. If I do this, will they add a new outside box, and then wire it to one new jack inside my house that is not connected to the rest of the jacks?
Thanks

Only they can tell you how they plan to handle the installation.

However, most house telephone systems are set up to handle two lines. If they give you any choices in the matter, I'd have them connect the new POTS service to line 2 on your existing system. Then you can plug your backup POTS phone into any jack in the house, using a splitter that plugs into the wall jack and separates the two lines in there into two separate jacks.

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Most home s have 2 pairs or more to all the jacks. Depending on the builders, you may have a home-run for all the jacks, or all jacks daisy-chained like my home (****) Go to the customer side of the NID and wire up white/blue for VoIP and white orange for POTS line. Colors may differ. Easy just to identify what 2 colors are wired to the house. Butt set and a toner will help. Good luck.