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VOIP allows phone calls through your Internet line on the cheap.
Byline: Tamara Chuang
(W/CPT-VOIP-SOURCES, CPT-VOIP-PROSCON:OC
By Tamara Chuang
I used to cringe each month when I paid my telephone bill. It averaged $38, and for what? Call waiting, caller ID and local phone service. That's it.
Thirty-eight dollars!
So, in the past year, when a technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol began to make waves, I decided to investigate.
Making telephone calls over a high-speed Internet line sounded cool. I already had the main ingredients: a cable modem and a router that lets me share Internet service among multiple computers, printers and other devices. Cable TV ads from Vonage _ the most popular of the VOIP providers _ made me think that Internet telephony had solved the terrible sound-quality problems it suffered from in the 1990s.
But what really made me take the plunge was Vonage's price…
- Vonage Launches V-Access.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 22, 2007 700+ words
...number to make calls to any Vonage phone number (or an 800-number) without...callers do not need to have a Vonage line to call a Vonage number...access number. 2. Dial the Vonage phone number or 800-number. 3. The call...
- Vonage V-Phone lets you take your VoIP on the road; I see the Toys of Summer...
- Magazine article from: Network World Shaw, Keith July 17, 2006 700+ words
...device with 256MB of space and preinstalled Vonage Talk software. Yes, the device has a Vonage phone number, which you can use wherever you have a broadband Internet connection. Vonage Talk has features such as a contact list...
- Vonage introduces V-Access service.(Brief article)
- Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire January 23, 2007 700+ words
...Access service reportedly provides Vonage subscribers who have friends and...number so they can make calls to any Vonage phone number (or an 800-number) without...Access callers do not need to have a Vonage line to call a Vonage number...
- 911 Now Available Across the U.S. on Vonage(R) VoIP Service.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 14, 2005 700+ words
...whenever they dial the digits 9-1-1 from a Vonage phone. In the event local authorities cannot display the Vonage customer's phone number or address, Vonage offers basic 911. Basic 911 is a service in...
- Stuck in VoIP limbo with Vonage.(voice over Internet protocol)(Vonage Holdings...
- Magazine article from: Network World Bruno, Charlie May 23, 2005 700+ words
...mail. Oh, on-net Vonage callers got me alright...m guessing because Vonage maps my BellSouth phone number to a temporary virtual...called my virtual phone number. I didn't even...is being ported to Vonage. It didn't mention...
- Vonage Introduces Free Dedicated Fax Line; Vonage Small Business Calling Plan...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 2, 2003 700+ words
...for only $9.99 per month. Vonage offers small businesses two...consumers, can take advantage of Vonage's newly developed virtual phone number feature for only $4.99 per...by making a local call. "Vonage's small business calling...
- Vonage DigitalVoice(SM) Launches Local Number Portability Customers Can Keep...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 26, 2002 700+ words
...transfer their local phone number to Vonage DigitalVoice service...physical location of the phone number. "Vonage gives customers options...changing their existing phone number," said Jeffrey Citron...Chairman & CEO of Vonage. "Our customers...
- Vonage Reaches Major Milestone With Its First Technology Patent.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 10, 2008 700+ words
...covers how a virtual phone number connects a long...FirstCall/ -- Vonage, a leading provider...number allows a Vonage customer to have...For example, a Vonage customer can get a secondary phone number with the same area...
- Vonage contract moves it closer to enhanced 911.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Van, Jon July 18, 2005 700+ words
...corporate communications at Vonage Holdings Corp. Schulz said...mobility. For example, a Vonage customer with a Chicago phone number can take his phone to a hotel...Chicago number will reach the Vonage customer wherever he takes...
- Vonage(R) Launches Affordable Toll Free Plus(SM) Service; Vonage Customers Can...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 7, 2003 700+ words
...thereafter. Like many Vonage features, such as the Virtual Phone Number(SM), subscribers...HELP. Vonage(R), Vonage Digital Voice(SM...SM) and Virtual Phone Number(SM) are trademarks of Vonage Holdings Corp. CONTACT...
Source: HighBeam Research, VOIP allows phone calls through your Internet line on the cheap.
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