Sparklight Phone Review

Sparklight phone service at a glance

Home phones are convenient and help first responders find you faster in an emergency. If you want that security in the form of a landline with Sparklight, you’ll appreciate the simplicity of its plans and the guaranteed-for-life pricing.

Plus, you can bring your old phone number with you, so you won’t have to memorize a new one or update your family and friends on how to reach you.

Jump to: 

• Pros & cons
• Phone packages and prices
• Internet + phone bundles packages and prices
• Promotions
• Final take
• FAQ

Sparklight phone service pros & cons

Sparklight phone plans

Data as of 10/9/2023. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.

Sparklight’s Economy Phone is a big 30 bucks per month cheaper than the Standard Phone. If all you want to do is keep a landline phone handy for emergencies, the Economy phone might be all you need.

To sweeten the pot for the Standard plan, Sparklight’s Standard Phone can do ten things the Economy Phone can’t.

1. Speed dials up to 8 numbers
2. Shows who’s on call waiting
3. Forwards calls to any other phone
4. Allows select programmed numbers to automatically forward to another number
5. Supports 3-way calls
6. Returns calls quickly with *69
7. Makes your caller ID anonymous with *67
8. Blocks incoming anonymous calls
9. Blocks select programmed numbers
10. Allows only select programmed numbers to make calls to your phone

You might not use all of the features above, and they’re not all that impressive compared to what a smartphone can do, but it’s nice to have options.

Unfortunately, options that used to be an included part of the Standard plan are now extra—make that $5 extra each. These features include recording voicemail, forwarding voicemail messages to any email address, caller ID, and voicemail prompts in English and Spanish.

If you frequently make long-distance calls, keep in mind that Sparklight has different rates for each country. Within the US, it’s $0.10 per minute on the Economy Phone plan, or you can get unlimited minutes included with the Standard Phone plan.

But if you’re calling Mexico City, it will cost only $0.05 per minute. Harder to reach places are more, like Tonga, which costs $4 per minute. Those prices can add up fast, and you would probably be better off using an online service if you can—like Google Hangouts or even good-ish ole Skype.

Sparklight bundles and pricing

Sparklight internet + phone packages

Data as of 10/9/2023. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.

When you pair your Sparklight standard phone plan with internet, you can save $32 off the total price.

There are a bunch of other bundles from Sparklight. You can see them all on our Sparklight bundle review.

Sparklight (Cable ONE) phone perks, cool stuff, and deals

Sparklight doesn’t have any promotional deals for phone service right now, but we’ll add any new sales and perks here when they’re available.

Our final take on Sparklight phone service

We’ve got to assume that if you got this far in the review, you’re a home phone-devotee. Good for you—it’s important to know what you like.

Sparklight’s phone service isn’t anything flashy, but it will get the job done. Since the Standard Phone offers a price-for-life guarantee and a bunch of helpful features, we recommend you go with that unlimited local and long-distance plan.

Sparklight phone service FAQ