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IDT wants to charge me a dollar to send me a bill Terry 02-05-2008
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Posted by Kurt Ullman on February 7, 2008, 12:12 pm

> Terry wrote:
> >> Joe
> >
> >
> > I left that out. They are a long distance phone service. A while
> > back they wanted me to pay 4 bucks just for the service. I complained
> > and they waved that charge too.
> >
>
> Blow 'em off. We use Vonage (other services are available) and have two VoIP
> lines. For 19.95/month we get:
>
>
Today's dumb question. Can you link Vonage in through your existing
phone jacks? I would like to be able to just keep the phones where they
are.
Also, I do some away from home consulting for up to a couple months
at a time. Can I bring Vonage along, use my laptop, and still be able to
use another phone (I am a writer and sometimes need to be able to record
the conversations and this is easier for me to do using a cordless phone
and a Radio Shack phone recording control)?

Posted by Terry on February 7, 2008, 12:35 pm

>>
>> I left that out. They are a long distance phone service. A while
>> back they wanted me to pay 4 bucks just for the service. I complained
>> and they waved that charge too.
>>
>
>Blow 'em off. We use Vonage (other services are available) and have two VoIP
>lines. For 19.95/month we get:
>
My long distance charges are less than 5 bucks per month.

I have a friend that just went to VoIP and he doesn't like it. I am
not ready to give it a try yet.

My Internet has weekly downtime.

My health is not the greatest. I don't foresee a 911 call in the near
future, but I would like to be able to make one if I need to.


Posted by Kurt Ullman on February 7, 2008, 12:44 pm


> My health is not the greatest. I don't foresee a 911 call in the near
> future, but I would like to be able to make one if I need to.
You can make the 911 calls. You just have to remember to tell the
program what your address is and then it contacts the correct emergency
center. Everybody was hyperventilating over what happens if someone is
using VOIP from (say) a hotel room and forgot to change the preferences.

Posted by Mark Lloyd on February 7, 2008, 4:04 pm

>Terry wrote:
>>> Joe
>>
>>
>> I left that out. They are a long distance phone service. A while
>> back they wanted me to pay 4 bucks just for the service. I complained
>> and they waved that charge too.
>>
>
>Blow 'em off. We use Vonage (other services are available) and have two VoIP
>lines. For 19.95/month we get:
>
>Another telephone number,
>All the goodies (voice-mail, caller-id, call-waiting, forwarding,
>yak-yak-yak)
>All the long-distance to most anywhere that we can eat.
>
>$19.95 per month. Period. No 911 fee, no fuel-surcharge, no universal access
>fee, no Al Gore tax, no sales tax. Zip.
>

How about this one? http://magicjack.com/site/index.html

>For our company, we diligently sought the cheapest long-distance rates. In
>spite of that, our LD bill was over $200/month. All that went away with
>VoIP.
>
>Here's a suggestion: Visit Best Buy, Sams, or the Vonage web site and pick
>up their kit - $19.95. Try the thing for a month. If you don't like it,
>cancel. It's a $20 gamble, but if it DOES work, you can tell your current
>provider to wrap their lips around a tailpipe.
>
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy

Posted by Terry on February 7, 2008, 4:35 pm
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:04:16 -0600, Mark Lloyd

>
>>Terry wrote:
>>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> I left that out. They are a long distance phone service. A while
>>> back they wanted me to pay 4 bucks just for the service. I complained
>>> and they waved that charge too.
>>>
>>
>>Blow 'em off. We use Vonage (other services are available) and have two VoIP
>>lines. For 19.95/month we get:
>>
>>Another telephone number,
>>All the goodies (voice-mail, caller-id, call-waiting, forwarding,
>>yak-yak-yak)
>>All the long-distance to most anywhere that we can eat.
>>
>>$19.95 per month. Period. No 911 fee, no fuel-surcharge, no universal access
>>fee, no Al Gore tax, no sales tax. Zip.
>>
>
>How about this one? http://magicjack.com/site/index.html
>
>>For our company, we diligently sought the cheapest long-distance rates. In
>>spite of that, our LD bill was over $200/month. All that went away with
>>VoIP.
>>
>>Here's a suggestion: Visit Best Buy, Sams, or the Vonage web site and pick
>>up their kit - $19.95. Try the thing for a month. If you don't like it,
>>cancel. It's a $20 gamble, but if it DOES work, you can tell your current
>>provider to wrap their lips around a tailpipe.
>>

That little gadget looks pretty interesting. My long distance runs
around 3 bucks a month so I don't need it, but for anyone that does do
long distance it would be a low risk gamble.

You could get one of those phones that need one phone line and come
with 3 extensions and use it from 4 places in the house without any re
wiring.

No incoming number I guess though?


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