Vonage

[Ilya R. 0]

Ukraine is difficult to find for free, but if you have someone who lives in Moscow/St. Petersburg and want to call free using VOIP try these guys, my friend has them and says it saves him thousands.

http://www.choosemcc.com/digital/

[Ban Hammer 14,286]

plus I get free voice mail, call waiting, call display, 3 way calling etc.....

woooo marilyn does 3 way

[Marilyn. 340]

plus I get free voice mail, call waiting, call display, 3 way calling etc.....

woooo marilyn does 3 way

i said the phone has that feature.. never said I used it ...

[Ban Hammer 14,286]

plus I get free voice mail, call waiting, call display, 3 way calling etc.....

woooo marilyn does 3 way

i said the phone has that feature.. never said I used it ...

[eric&gen 0]

If you want lower bills stop calling CANADA.

[Marilyn. 340]

If you want lower bills stop calling CANADA.

umm, silly.. my family is in Canada ... I kind of like to see how they are doing sometimes

and my bills are cheaper now that I use Vonage

[Emancipation 2]

I dont know or care to know people in CANADA.

Poor thing.. missing out on the best part of North American IMO

[Ban Hammer 14,286]

I dont know or care to know people in CANADA.

Poor thing.. missing out on the best part of North American IMO

meaning timbits and tire money

[chuckb 0]

we pay about 28 bucks a month for Vonage.... and no extra charges for long distance .. and that also includes voice mail, call display etc..

with regular phone it costs about 30 bucks or more a month and when you make long distance calls that goes way higher... and then add the call display and voice mail and it is even higher...

Take a look at www.Magicjack.com. If you have a running computer with high speed Internet, you can get 1 yearof service for about $50, or 5 years of service for about $100. Free US and Canada calls, and a US phone number. I have two of them, one in the Philippines, and one here. It's free for me to call Magicjack the Phils, and free for them to call anywhere here. Just my two cents, I'm into cheap if it works, and it does...

[Marilyn. 340]

we pay about 28 bucks a month for Vonage.... and no extra charges for long distance .. and that also includes voice mail, call display etc..

with regular phone it costs about 30 bucks or more a month and when you make long distance calls that goes way higher... and then add the call display and voice mail and it is even higher...

Take a look at www.Magicjack.com. If you have a running computer with high speed Internet, you can get 1 yearof service for about $50, or 5 years of service for about $100. Free US and Canada calls, and a US phone number. I have two of them, one in the Philippines, and one here. It's free for me to call Magicjack the Phils, and free for them to call anywhere here. Just my two cents, I'm into cheap if it works, and it does...

yeah I did look it up and I like to read reviews and about 95% of the people had bad things to say about it...

one thing I don't like is that in order for it to work the computer has to be on.. I always turn my computer off overnight and if we are going to be gone for a long period of time...

Vonage works even if the computer is off.....

but if Magicjack works for you, great

[Emancipation 2]

I dont know or care to know people in CANADA.

Poor thing.. missing out on the best part of North American IMO

meaning timbits and tire money

But of course Charles!!!! You have done well in the CDN forum little grasshopper!!!

[natty bumppo 297]

we pay about 28 bucks a month for Vonage.... and no extra charges for long distance .. and that also includes voice mail, call display etc..

with regular phone it costs about 30 bucks or more a month and when you make long distance calls that goes way higher... and then add the call display and voice mail and it is even higher...

Take a look at www.Magicjack.com. If you have a running computer with high speed Internet, you can get 1 yearof service for about $50, or 5 years of service for about $100. Free US and Canada calls, and a US phone number. I have two of them, one in the Philippines, and one here. It's free for me to call Magicjack the Phils, and free for them to call anywhere here. Just my two cents, I'm into cheap if it works, and it does...

yeah I did look it up and I like to read reviews and about 95% of the people had bad things to say about it...

one thing I don't like is that in order for it to work the computer has to be on.. I always turn my computer off overnight and if we are going to be gone for a long period of time...

Vonage works even if the computer is off.....

but if Magicjack works for you, great

magicjack requires a computer ... wow ... voip phones based on the pc working .. ugh

[Marilyn. 340]

actually with VOIP you don't really need a computer.. you just need a internet connection... Vonage phone works even if your computer doesn't ..

but yes if your internet connection goes out so does your phone but most people have cell phones now a days that you can use for back-up...

[chuckb 0]

yeah I did look it up and I like to read reviews and about 95% of the people had bad things to say about it...

one thing I don't like is that in order for it to work the computer has to be on.. I always turn my computer off overnight and if we are going to be gone for a long period of time...

Vonage works even if the computer is off.....

but if Magicjack works for you, great

I agree. If they did an Ethernet version I'd be first in line to get one! I have a big family with several computers, so I just run it on the computer that I use as a Network Server (Printers and Shared Disk Storage). That's not a desirable option for everyone.

I don't like answering the phone at night anyway, and can't if I'm gone! It has voicemail, if it had Call Forwarding like Skype, then that issue would have a work around. Skype is still less money than Vonage, but I've had issues with the phone shutting down if you missdial a call. Until the pop-up window stating that you dialed incorrectly is closed, the phone doesn't work incoming, or outgoing. Most annoying! My Skype phone is a USB device as well, same issues...

I've had issues with the Magicjack too. Nothing is perfect. All of my issues have been on one Magicjack thankfully the one here in the US. They seem to be fixed by a software upgrade, they make upgrades very painless, click of a button on the WEB site. Never had a problem with the second one.

There are also a lot of rave reviews in some forums out there. If there weren't, I'd never have made the investment!

Cheers...

[trailmix 77]

We have been using Vonage for a couple of months now, I really like it. One thing I have noticed is that, sometimes, the voice delivery is a tad delayed, which results in people talking over other people...but not all the time.

I also signed up for their virtual number, so now my family in Calgary can call me as well - it is only $5 a month for that feature.

I tried magicjack - complete waste of time and money (I mailed it back) - of the say - week - we had it, there were 2 entire days when it didn't work.

I'm sure it must work well for some people.