Just received my Vonage (voip) telephone adaptor last night. This allows me to make phone calls (using my normal telephone) over my broadband Internet connection. Took less that 5 minutes to install. Sound (to me) is the same as a normal land-line. At $29.00 flat-fee per month for unlimited local and long-distance calls, it’s a steal.
I really like the feature that lets you have voicemails forwarded to an email account (as .wav files). Once my old home phone number is ported to Vonage, I’ll be cancelling my Verizon line – saving me $30.00/month. Vonage provides a temporary “virtual” number so I can use the service until my old number is ported (which can take 20 days).
Lots of other features. And if you do international calling, it’s really cheap. I can call the UK, for instance, for $0.03/min!
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