Vonage

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Maybe a no brainer....but does anyone use this service at a saving
over regular land line fones?

 

[JeffM]

Maybe a no brainer....

YOU are the no-brainer.

but does anyone use this service at a saving
over regular land line fones?

You have mistaken this group for misc.consumers
http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=33602282

Is EVERYONE who wants to use Vonage an idiot?
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=use-Vonage

You are already at Google.
Are you too stupid to use a search engine?
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:telecom+Vonage

 

[Gary Tait]

[email protected] wrote in @w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

Maybe a no brainer....but does anyone use this service at a saving
over regular land line fones?

Outright, likely not, since one has to also pay for a broadband connection.
There might be a saving in it's long distance over a wired long distance,
if one regularily makes long distance calls.

 

[GregS]

[email protected] wrote in @w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:


Outright, likely not, since one has to also pay for a broadband connection.
There might be a saving in it's long distance over a wired long distance,
if one regularily makes long distance calls.

I could obviously save. My Comcast digital phone is only about $20 a month,
butI can only call across the street, or into the next boro's without
incurring added cost, with a minimun of $.22 a minuite plus long distance.
Vonage works, most of the time, from what I've heard.

If I loose cable, I loose internet, TV, and phone.

I use my cell phone or phone card otherwise.

greg

 

[scada]

Maybe a no brainer....but does anyone use this service at a saving
over regular land line fones?

Absolutely! I have VOIP with my broadband provider, and a relative has
Vonage. Both work well. I need the broadband connection anyway for internet,
so I don't figure that in the cost. I can call friends relatives Throughout
the US with no added fees! It works well for me!

 

[mpm]

Anybody considering VoIP should probably Google the ongoing SunRocket
disaster.
They had about 200,000 customers and simply went out of business
overnight, stranding all of their customers!! Completly
irresponsible. Good thing they were the "No Gotcha" phone company.
Of course, they Gotcha money.... (Good luck with that refund in
Bankruptcy - You're probably right behind the Employee Stock Ownership
program.... Ha!)

IMO - VoIP really hasn't come of age yet. Vonage is being sued (by
Verizon, I think, for patent infringement.) The rest seem underfunded
and are certainly having trouble competing with the big cable
providers for the VoIP pie.

VoIP will work for some, (quality not as good as tip-and-ring), but it
is not a panacea.


-mpm