Get rid of digital phone

So, about $40 of the cable bill is the digital phone portion. Both my wife and I have cell phones so the obvious choice would be to completely drop home phone but there were some concerns about completely getting rid of it. With the kids old enough to dial 911 (and apt to use it in situations where my boy is holding barbies hostage with his nerf blaster), we thought it was probably a good idea to keep a home phone up and running. I didn't want to go back to the phone company and have to pay for their silly charges and taxes so what was I to do? That's when I went to, as George W. Bush would call it, the internets, and decided to see what options there were. My goal, find something that doesn't have a montly cost...here is what I found in the following posts...