VoIP Provider Recommendations
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I've been with ViaTalk the past 2 1/2 years and they IMO offer the best bang for the buck. I've looked at Ooma...but by golly their business model just scares the crap out of me. I got burned by SunRocket and Packet8 and I just don't see them surviving after they stop selling millions of the Ooma devices. We shall see.
To each his own. I refuse to pay TWC for Sub Standard service. I haven't been able to use the Call History feature at all in 3 weeks. Unacceptable. Gone.
Hey, I'll quote you on that in 2 years from now when you're looking for a new VoIP provider because your current one went out of business. I’d rather be able to say with certainty that I’ll have phone service tomorrow then look at my call history, which I can’t say I’ve ever had the inkling to do. How Vonage has managed to stay in business so long is beyond me, but all these other jokers will be gone in a few years, then a new crop will pop up.
As long as I can keep my $19.99/month Comcast Digital Voice promo I have absolutely no reason to switch phone companies. Plus the service is rock solid and the sound quality is the best I've heard from any company!
I have been with ViaTalk nearly 8+ years and they have been great. Effectively$8.47 plus govt fees - $12 /mo for unlimited everything, every available service and a web portal and VM e-forwarding and mobile apps. Works great, sounds great.
http://www.viatalk.com/broadband_phone_control_panel.htm
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That $3 per month are the taxes ain't it? What I do not like is their upfront cost of around $200 compared to NetTalk which only charges $29 per year and around $30 for the device. What I like about oOma is that they allow you to port the number where NetTalk don't unless I am mistaken on that one.
Vonage works good, as long as you don't call them. There tech support is useless and they just say anything to try to get you off the phone.
When you try to cancel Vonage, they give you the run around also. If you try not paying the bill by cancelling your credit card, so they will shut you down so you can settle with you later, they keep billing you for 5 months and let you run up a big bill.
When you try to cancel Vonage, they give you the run around also. If you try not paying the bill by cancelling your credit card, so they will shut you down so you can settle with you later, they keep billing you for 5 months and let you run up a big bill.
There is a kewl device called "Home Connect" by Verizon Wireless, which basically adds another wireless line to your billing ($10 a month in my case) and it back loads your home phone wiring, so you can use your minutes, mobile to mobile; and weekend and evenings & weekends minutes at home on your old wired lines. You have to disconnect your home wiring from the phone company wired interface coming to your house.
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I am not worried about that, I have it on an old laptop that I formatted and threw magic jack on it.
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I am not worried about that, I have it on an old laptop that I formatted and threw magic jack on it.
That would be the only way that I could convince myself into using Magic Jack. I would never put it on a computer that I still actually use.
For $10 more per year, I find it worth using NetTalk so that you do not have to connect it up to a computer and have to have it running all of the time.
I have used viatalk for over a year now. I love getting my voicemail emailed to me (my home number and I am rarely home). I prepaid 2 years, but have around $2.50 a month in taxes/911 fees.
I think I'm about to take the plunge on Ooma. So to the OP, how do you like the service now that you've had it for a while? And I have a question for those ooma users that just used their own phone handsets. I have 4 cordless phones throughout the house. But only the base phone (with answering machine) actually plugs into a wall jack. The other 3 handsets only have an AC adapter and somehow are tied into the base so they don't require a line plugged into a wall jack. So will all 4 of these phones work with ooma?
Yes. We have one one base (no answering machine) with three cordless phones and all three work fine
But you may want to turn off the answering machine or set it to pick up before the Ooma does. The Ooma itself is also an answering machine.
If you use the answering machine on your handset instead of the Ooma, you will not be able to take advantage of the Ooma answering machine features, such as listening to your messages online or have Ooma send a text to your cell notifying you that you have a message.
