Monday, July 14, 2008

Vonage Broadband Benefits

By Ray Lam

With more players jumping into the already populated space of Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP), the perceptive user has that much more choice. Vonage is a leading player in this marketplace with over a million subscribers worldwide in a short lifespan of three years. However, there is a set of negatives too, so wait until you reach the end of this review before you decide to switch from your traditional landline service to Vonage telephony.

Introduce the voice over IP internet phone service Vonage. I'm sure you've seen the commercial and web ads for them all over the place. Well I being the curious type decided to jump in with them and see what the service was like. After all what's to stop me from trying another phone service. Transferring your phone number is easy these days.

Vonage offers a set of four monthly packages for all calls in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico: a premium unlimited offer at US$24.99, a basic plan of 500 minutes at US$14.99, a small-business unlimited package at US$49.99, and a basic small-business offer of 1500 minutes at US$39.99. For calls from the US to other world destinations, there is a nominal per-minute rate applicable, which is well below what you would pay to your landline service provider. For example, for a minute's call to Mumbai (India), you need to pay only US$0.17; for a call to the UK, it is as low as US$0.04 per minute.

Premium services like voicemail, caller ID, 3 Way calling, etc all come standard with the Vonage plan. There are other options out there for internet phone service similar to Vonage. However when it comes to a delicate technology like voice over IP address phone I recommend staying with the market's strongest VOIP service - Vonage.

Vonage has spent enormous amounts of their advertising budget dollars towards branding their VoIP Solution system. Vonage who is viewed as the leader of marketing still clings to its "Woo Hoo" song to grab the attention of millions of prospective service users. Vonage offers two basic plans to choose from, with their unlimited local and long distance service starting less than $25 a month for the end user.

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