Vonage Unlimited calls to 60 countries 24.99 including India starts tomorrow

Saw this deal on SD. Here is the link to the Vonage plan page.

PCWorld.com is reporting that they are starting this plan from Thursday. Here is the link to the article and below are excerpt from the article.

Vonage Holdings is adding unlimited free calls to countries including Mexico and China, plus speech-to-text conversion of voicemail, to its fixed-line VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service. Starting Thursday, Vonage will let subscribers call more than 60 countries and territories as part of a flat-rate calling plan called Vonage World, priced at US$24.99 per month. The countries include India, Brazil, South Korea, Canada and Australia, as well as several countries in Europe and other locations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In more than a dozen of those countries, including India and China, calls to mobile phones are included.

Call to VietNam still low 34Cents/min. Are you NUTS, Vonage? calling cards are now only 4 Cents/min. Charging 9 times over others and still claiming LOW. It should be fraud.

Our milk are still low $20 for a gallon while Walmarts is selling for $2. There ough to be rules banning against such claim.

Hmm. It would replace the Premium plan. There's already an enhanced world plan for $40 but this would be the regular premium plan price.

Now I hope the conversion to this would be seamless - why? I'm on the unlimited premium for $14.99 for life (from close to two years ago) and don't want to loose it...

Beware...!!!
Eventaully, Vonage will screw you later, by changing the term for "free" calls to be "paid" calls (whenever they see the potential to make $$$.)

Just finished helping my Bangladesh friend (who got out from Vonage for the above reason), to set up "Google Voice + Sipgate + SipSorcery". Now, she & her family in Bangladesh are having "truly free" domestic calls & the calls to Bangladesh.

In a nutshell, Vonage SUCKS !!!

looks like a good deal to me. i am already paying $24/month for premium unlimited plan. with this, i basically get international calls for free. am i missing somethig here?

Vonage sucks -- service is good but expensive than when you decide to cancel they will charge you $49 to disconnect if you had the service for less then 2 years (Now I think is a 1 year, please read their fine print). Their $25 a month with taxes for me in new york was around $31-$32 total. I have joiphone now and it cost me $22 a month which includes 800 minutes of international calls for free. Just my 2cents.

I agreed Vongage is a crook with their termination fees and their service sucks.

Their services wasn't sucks for me its theirs charges that sucks. I don't know how they came up with the charges but they came up with so many many ways to charge you. 6 years ago they price is reasonable @ $25 I sign up with a $100 from Microcenter calculated that my cost wasn't that much to sign up but they charged the heck out of it. Glad I don't have them anymore.

planohockey said: I agreed Vongage is a crook with their termination fees and their service sucks.

Has anyone who has the $14.99 plan tried to change to the World Plan? Were you able to get it for $14.99 or did you have to pay $24.99?

I'm confused, is Mexico free or not?
http://www.vonage.com/international_per-minute_rates/?lid=sub_nav_international_rates#M
Expand Mexico, there is a huge list of "Premium" numbers for 23cents/min.

breaux124 said: I'm confused, is Mexico free or not?
http://www.vonage.com/international_per-minute_rates/?lid=sub_nav_international_rates#M
Expand Mexico, there is a huge list of "Premium" numbers for 23cents/min.

Calls to these cellular and premium numbers are 23¢ per minute

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All other calls are included free of additional charge.

Sucks that Mexico didn't put forth a greater effort to segregate their cellular/premium numbers.

well those aren't really government fees, they goverment "allows" the phone company to pass it along, it's not taxes, if you notice the taxes will be the smallest part of it

Liveandletlive said: CheapCheap1 said: Beware...!!!
Eventaully, Vonage will screw you later, by changing the term for "free" calls to be "paid" calls (whenever they see the potential to make $$$.)

Just finished helping my Bangladesh friend (who got out from Vonage for the above reason), to set up "Google Voice + Sipgate + SipSorcery". Now, she & her family in Bangladesh are having "truly free" domestic calls & the calls to Bangladesh.

In a nutshell, Vonage SUCKS !!!

Care to elaborate?
Very simple...Just check the list of free call & see if Bangladesh is still on the list.
If Vonage can pull Bangladesh out from its free call list (& start charging), who knows when your destination countries will be the next one?

BTW, I was also an ex-customer of Vonage, after had the service w/ them 4+ yrs. I have never regret...b'coz I can save my $$$, at least, $120+/yr.

With their recent ads (in which they hid the fact that they started at $19.95/month...) it does seem like when you see in a package (STILL xx oz.), you know they're about to reduce the size of the package.

They DID increase their prices; their former $24.95 (all prices + fees/taxes) is now $34.95/month and their former limited $14.95 plan is now $17.95, so if you are in the former $24.95 unlimited plan you MAY have to ask to change to the new international plan to keep the rate. Otherwise, you could have next month the unpleasant surprise of paying $10 MORE/month...

If you're already paying them $24.95 + taxes/fees/month call their CSR's to see if they're switching you to the new plan or they're keeping you at the same plan for $10 more/month. No FW'er have posted that answer yet...

Please call Vonage to confirm what unlimited means...When I called I am told its 5000 mints / month. Once you make use of more than 4000 mints Vonage ask you to upgrade to small business account to pay differently for international call.

gatzdon said: I just switched my plan over to the Vonage World Annual Prepay Plan
and I have to ask myself

Why is that I pay Vonage $257.87 ($239.99 plus $17.88 disguised as a government fee)
and I have to pay $82.02 to various government agencies.

That's 31.8% that I have to pay the government to use a phone that practically requires
no government infrastructure or services.

When is this so-called revolution going to start.

when we all revolt? care to lead?
"be the change you want to see in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi

changed from 24.99 unlimited UK & ireland plan to unlimited world plan. i am using Vonage for more than 2 yrs. they said no contract no one time charge no increase in my monthly bill.

Lets hope they are not lying.

In for the this offer with new connection

If you're happy with Vonage, it's a good deal.
I'm using Vonage now, but I will cancel it and start to use google voice, even though I need pay more for internation calls.
With Vonage, I can hear the other end clearly, but the other end always complain my sound not continue.

I just went online and switched the plan from the "old" unlimited premium plan to this one. It became effective immediately and cost the same.