Why do I love my Vonage phone service?

Oh, let me count the reasons.

1. I pay $25 per month for unlimited phone calls, no long distance fees within the US and some countries outside the US.
2. They email me my voice mails in a .wav format. They transcribe the text to the body of the email now, too. The .wav file comes with the service, the transcription is 25 cents per voice mail and is an option you can enable or disable according to your preference.
3. V-Me. Love this. It is new and comes with my service at no extra charge. If enabled, you get a web address for your phone line. Callers go to the web page, enter their phone number and click submit. Vonage rings their phone, then your phone, and connects the call. Because my Vonage service initiates the call, the caller doesn’t incur any long distance charges on their phone line, no matter who they have. Of course, if they use a cell phone they might still be charged minutes but no long distance if they use the web tool to call me

Disadvantage: It is internet based, and you must have an internet line for this to work. Dial-up won’t do it, you need an ‘always-on’ connection. And if your internet connection goes out for any reason, then your home phone does too. For me, the very low monthly fee offsets the infrequent inconvenience of losing the home phone when the internet has gone out. I think that’s happened to me maybe 3 times in the last year, and one of those times was during a storm when the power went out, so I don’t count it. And I had my cell phone handy each of those times.

I’ve been with Vonage almost 2 years now, I think. I am very happy with the service and highly recommend it.

Jennifer Ray
http://www.jenaray.com/