November 20th, 2003
Vonage
Ok, I bit the bullet and signed up for Vonage. Basically Vonage provides telephone service over your internet connection – so you disconnect your local phone service and replace it with Vonage. I’ve been making tons of long distance calls as of late, so I decided that this was the cheapest way to get unlimited LD. From the people I’ve spoken too, and the things I’ve read the quality is great and the clarity is often better than standard phone service.
If you’re interested in signing up too, here’s a link to use to get your 2nd month for FREE.
Interesting Vonage facts:
- Modems and Faxing works – This not true for 8×8 or other competitors.
- 911 works – Also not true for the other providers
- Failover – If your internet connection is down, or the power is out it’ll forward to whatever phone you want, includiing your cellular phone.
- Multiple Numbers – you can have as many numbers in whatever area codes you want… so if you have family in a different state they can call you via a local number
- Works over dial-up – evidentally the codec they use is so tight that you can even do it over a 28.8k modem. Wow.
- Number Portability – you can move your existing phone number to Vonage
- Cheap – Unlimited in and outbound calls for only $35, and that includes all you can eat long distance to boot.
Additionally the $35/month plan also throws in:
- FREE Call Waiting
- FREE Voicemail
- FREE Call Forwarding
- FREE Repeat Dialing
- FREE Call Transfer
- FREE Caller ID
- FREE Caller ID Block
My VoIP box should be here next week. I hope things go well – I’ll report how things go.