BabbleBlue is a simple home phone service with one feature families love: pick the people who get a text message the moment 911 is dialed from your line — a daughter across the country, a neighbor across the street. Same phones, same number, $11.99 a month.
When you sign up, you list the phone numbers that should be told if 911 is ever called from your home phone. Dispatchers see your registered home address, help gets sent — and everyone on your list gets a text message right away. It's included with the plan, and the list is yours to change anytime.
Add one number or several, right in signup — a son in another state, a neighbor around the corner, anyone you trust with a US or Canada cell number. Life changes; the list changes with it.
There's no button to press and no code to remember. Dial 911 the way you always would. The texts go out on their own while help is on the way.
This isn't a pendant or an app. It's your regular home phone, doing one extra thing at the moment it matters most.
The adapter we include plugs into your internet router and gives you a normal phone jack. Corded phone, big-button phone, cordless set with three handsets — they all plug in and work exactly the way they always have.
Getting the same junk call every afternoon? Block the number once and it stays blocked on every line on your account. Do it from your online account, or call us and we'll block it for you.
$11.99 a month, no contract, and the price on the website is the price on the bill. Unlimited calling across the US and Canada means the long catch-up calls with the grandkids cost nothing extra.
Plenty of BabbleBlue Home accounts are set up by an adult child for a parent. Do it all online in a few minutes, or call us with your parent and we'll handle everything together over the phone.
Add your cell number during signup and you'll get a text if 911 is ever dialed from their line — even if you live three time zones away. Add siblings and a nearby neighbor too, and update the list anytime.
You can run the signup and take care of the bill while the phone lives at your parent's home. Their address is the one registered for 911, so dispatchers see where the phone actually is — not where the bill goes.
If their power or internet goes out, automatic failover forwards incoming calls to a backup number you choose — their cell, or yours — so callers never hit a dead line. Outgoing calls, including 911, do need the internet up, so keep a charged cell phone in the house.
The online signup takes a few minutes, and the 911 text list is part of it — no separate setup later. Prefer a person? Call (855) 801-2441 and we'll do the whole thing with you.
Give us your current phone number and a copy of a recent bill, and we file the transfer paperwork with your old phone company. The number keeps working the whole time, and you never have to call them to cancel — the transfer does that for you.
We ship you a small adapter. One cord goes to your internet router, your phone plugs into the other side, and when the light comes on you have a dial tone. That's the entire installation.
Two things. Dispatchers see your registered home address, because E911 is included on every plan and your address is registered when you sign up. And every phone number on your 911 alert list — family, a neighbor, anyone you chose — gets a text message right away that 911 was dialed from your line. You set the list up during signup and can change it whenever you like.
No, and we won't pretend it does. A pendant can call for help when you can't get to a phone. What BabbleBlue adds is different: when 911 is called from your home line, the people you love find out in moments instead of hours. The two work well together. One caution — some older medical alert devices connect through the phone line and were designed for copper wiring. Call us before switching and we'll tell you straight whether yours will work.
Yes. Transferring your number to BabbleBlue is free, we handle the paperwork with your current phone company, and the number keeps working during the move. If you've had the same number for forty years, it stays yours.
No. The adapter we include has a standard phone jack. Corded phones, big-button phones, and cordless sets all plug right in and work exactly the way they always have. If your phones are wired into wall jacks around the house, call us and we'll talk through your wiring.
An honest answer: because the service runs over your internet connection, the home phone can't make calls during a power or internet outage — including to 911. We recommend keeping a charged cell phone in the house as a backup. Incoming calls aren't lost, though: automatic failover is included, and it forwards incoming calls to a backup number you choose — like your cell, or a family member's — whenever the adapter is offline. See our 911 disclosure for full details.
Block a number once and it stays blocked on every line on your account. You can do it from your online account, or just call us and we'll block it for you.
Either way works. Many families put the account in the adult child's name, with the service address at the parent's home — the 911 registration follows the service address, not the billing address, so dispatchers see where the phone actually is. If you'd rather keep everything in your parent's name, call us together and we'll set the whole thing up over the phone.
No and no. It's $11.99 a month, month to month, and the price on the website is the price on the bill. If you ever leave, you can take your number with you the same way you brought it here.
Yes. BabbleBlue serves Canada as well as the US. Canadian numbers port in free, 9-1-1 registration works with a Canadian address, and unlimited calling covers both countries — so cross-border check-in calls cost nothing extra. Adapters currently ship to US addresses only, so Canadian customers use their own standard phone adapter (any off-the-shelf ATA works; call us and we'll recommend one). Prices are in USD.
Sign up online in minutes, or call and a real person in the US will set everything up with you over the phone.
Or just call us: (855) 801-2441