2009 Advisor
GrandmawsOpinion
Leicester, NC
Say Good Bye to Expensive Long Distance Phone Service
4 star rating

Pros

    broadband down, call forward to cell, fits our budget, unlimited calling, excellent call quality

Cons
    must register your location for 911

JUL
18
2009

Vonage — 

When we moved from our home state of Pennsylvania to North Carolina I we make tons of long distances phone calls.  And with family members in England and Scotland we make lots of international calls.  Calling two and three times a week talking for a minimum of one hours per call those minutes added up quickly until we changed to Vonage as our primary phone service.

Our high speed cable internet delivers our calls quickly and clearly.  Our friends and family haven't noticed any change in sound quality or connection.  Vonage has many features that help me keep my phone calls organized.  I can log into our online account and see every call we've made or received., My favorite feature is our voice mail is also sent to our email address allowing us to play our voice messages via our computer's sound system!  It's a great feature to use when our kids call and we can listen to their messages together and save those precious calls from our granddaughter as a sound file.  I have dozens saved in my "Granddaughter" file on my laptop allowing me to keep them as long as I like!

Vonage lets us stay connected with our family and keep our long distance phone bill down.  Costing $24.99 including taxes and a couple of special features we chose to add our monthly bill totals $31.99. Not bad! Our past long distance bills used to range anywhere from $120 to $230 per month, not to mention those costly and annoying Pre-Paid Phone Cards where you need to enter endless codes and numbers just to get an all curcuits are busy signal!   Vonage for us is the best deal in VoIP phone service.

 

Noteworthy:  If you have Directv you may experience problems purchasing a "Paid-Per-View" films with your remote control due to the fact it's a cable phone line and the phone is connected through your computer. 

P.s. It's fun to call our family members and leaving the phone line open on speaker while they're hanging out at our favorite local British pub and listen to them singing very bad karaoke, priceless!

Last edited on Aug 13, 2009



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jorgnava wrote on Sep 3, 2009 at 7:51PM

I live abroad and use vonage, I love having a american number with a DC area code and only pay 30 plus bucks per month, but a couple friends of mine use Magig Jack and they pay like 40 dollars per year. I thinking bout swiching man.

GrandmawsOpinion wrote on Aug 13, 2009 at 8:00AM

In response to MikeMaroon's comment from Aug 12, 2009 at 11:57PM:

LOL thanks for the read Mike! If it weren't for my in-laws in England I'd probably just use my cell phone but Vonage had FREE calls to England! Gotta keep up with how the local Football Team is doing!

MikeMaroon wrote on Aug 12, 2009 at 11:57PM

I chose Comcast over Vonage, but it turned out I needed NEITHER!! LOL

GrandmawsOpinion wrote on Aug 11, 2009 at 6:12PM

In response to jasyjen's comment from Aug 10, 2009 at 12:54PM:

Thanks for the read! Vonage really works for me!

jasyjen wrote on Aug 10, 2009 at 12:54PM

My brother used Vonage when he was stationed in Korea. Saved him a ton of money. Great review!