Bell Home Phone Reviews and Plans

Bell Canada, commonly called Bell, is one of the major companies in Canada. Originally founded as a subsidiary of Bell Systems. Bell Systems, in turn, was co-founded by Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone. Today Bell has headquarters in Montreal, Quebec and employs over 49,000 Canadians

With that said, Bell Home Phone has been, and for many still an iconic household item for Canadian families. Though times passes and with it there has been an erosion on Bell Canada Home Phone business. Bell Home Phone has the highest disconnection rate and at the same time the highest intent to switch. 

Let us move on now to our proper Bell Home Phone review. It is almost a DOA. Right off the gate, Bell Home Phone plans hit you with high monthly prices.

• Bell Home Phone Lite @ $52.05/month with Unlimited Local Calling
• Bell Home Phone Choice @ $67.05/month with Unlimited Local Calling & 8-Features of your choice.

Both are subject to a rather taxing Activation Fee of $49.95! Need Canada and the USA  Calling? That is another $10 monthly. 

The Feature set you can pick with Bell Home Phone Choice package is, we must say, well thought. However, when Bell Home Phone is compared to for example VoIP Much Home Phone, we found Bell's limited. In total, you can choose, without having to pay extra among 11 features. Here we show a comprehensive list of all Bell Home Phone features:

1. Ident-A-Call
2. Visual Call Waiting (Counts as two Features!)
3. Three-Way Calling
4. Call Answer
5. Call Answer Message Manager (Why this separated from the other is mind-blowing!)
6. Call Forwarding
7. Call Waiting
8. Last Call Return
9. Voice Dialing (Extra $5/month!)
10. Call Privacy
11. Call Control
12. Call Screen

Also, we do need to take into account the Bell home phone support department. Which is well known to be poor or lacking, more interested in selling unnecessary products than fixing existing problems. The long distance rates from Bell are some of the most horrendous we have seen in the market. In this day Bell is still using the old mileage demarcation to rate long distance calls.. From within Canada!  

If we compare the price of Bell Home Phone with 8-Features against VoIP Much Home Phone with over 30-Features; you could be saving about $660 a year! It is no wonder why more and more Canadian are abanding Bell Home Phone landline service. 

Features

Call Blocking
Conference Calling
BYOD:
Smartphone App:
Call Forwarding
Call Hold
Caller ID Name:
Enhanced VoiceMail:

Call Blocking
Conference Calling
Fax Capabilities
Fax to Email
Call Forwarding
Call Hold
Call Transfer
Music Hold
Caller ID Name:
Call Waiting:
Web Management:
Do Not Disturb:
Multiple Users:
Area Code Selection:
Extra Number:
Toll Free Numbers:
BYOD:
Desktop App:
Smartphone App:
Enhanced VoiceMail:
VoiceMail to Email:

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