Additional Second Phone Line

It makes sense to add a phone line

It's increasingly common for households to add a second telephone line. An additional phone line works in the same way as a regular phone line but with a separate phone number. An additional phone line can make life so much easier in many ways, for all the family, as well as save money.

• Traditional phone line companies can charge around £120 to install a second telephone line. With Vonage, the set-up costs start at just £18.98 to add a phone line. Using Vonage as a second line offers a flexible way to cut monthly costs.
• An additional phone line frees up the family's main phone line. You can, for example, install another phone line especially for the use of one or more people in the household. You might like to keep in regular contact with the rest of your family and prefer the phone line to be free.
• A second phone line means that everyone can use their own phone line in privacy. Your main phone line won't be constantly engaged. You can add a 2nd phone line to solve family disputes and help clear the line, as well as the air!
• An extra telephone line also means that other people can always get through, particularly in an emergency. Even if your main phone line is busy, or out of order, you've always got an additional phone line number.
• If you work from home, you could add a phone line and use it as a small business phone line. This will prove professionally invaluable, helping you keep work and family communications separate.

Read some Vonage stories from our customers, many of whom decided to add an extra phone line.

How a Vonage second phone line works

At the moment, your phone is probably plugged into a phone line socket in your wall. If you use Vonage as a second telephone line (or several additional telephone lines), you would simply unplug your phone from that socket and plug it into a Vonage adapter. This adapter would in turn plug into your broadband modem or router. Find out exactly how Vonage works here.

Portable second phone line

Another wonderful benefit of having Vonage as a second phone line is that it's entirely portable. Typically, a phone line is directly linked to your main country of residence and more specifically to a particular house. However Vonage is a portable second phone line, meaning your phone line no longer ties you down to any one house or country.

If you go on holiday or abroad for work, you can simply take the second phone line with you. As long as you've got access to broadband, your Vonage adapter and a normal phone handset, you'll be able to make unlimited¹ landline calls on this additional phone line. People can call you on this line as regardless of where you are in the world.

Additional phone lines when you've got cable broadband

If you have a cable broadband and phone line service (Virgin Media, for example), you have a choice to make. So you can cancel your cable phone line service without affecting your cable broadband service, and use Vonage as your main phone line. This flexibility is down to the fact that your cable broadband and telephone lines are in fact separate. Or you can choose to simply add Vonage as a second telephone line.

Additional phone lines when you've got ADSL broadband

If you have ADSL broadband, you don't have the option of cancelling your phone line service and keeping your broadband as they are tied together. You can though still save money by using Vonage as your second phone line and reduce your dependency of your main phone line.

Choice of Call plans

When you add a second phone line from Vonage, you select a call plan that allows you to make unlimited¹ calls to landlines. If you regularly call internationally, additional phone lines can help cut costs because we also offer a range of low-cost and unlimited¹ international call plans.

So no matter what your current phone line and broadband set-up, once you start using Vonage as your second telephone line to make unlimited¹ landline calls, you'll quickly notice a difference in your overall phone bill.