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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.

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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.
Link to plan page
http://www.vonage.com/residential_calling_plans/vonage_world/

Countries and territories included in Vonage World**
Andorra
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas*
Bahrain
Belgium
Brazil
Brunei*
Bulgaria
Canada*
Chile
China*
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Guadeloupe
Guam*
Hong Kong*
Hungary
Iceland
India*
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Latvia
Luxembourg
Macedonia, Republic of
Macau*
Malaysia*
Malta
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico*
Romania
Russia
Saipan*
San Marino*
Singapore*
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand*
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States*
U.S. Virgin Islands*
Venezuela
Zambia
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*Calls to cellular phones included
**All calls to landline phones included. Calls to cell phones may be included depending on destination. Subject to change. Excludes certain call types such as calls to non-geographic and premium numbers.

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If you already have a Vonage (residential) plan, log onto your account, click on the "Billing" tab, then click on "Change Your Calling Plan". You should see the Vonage World Option there -- just select it and confirm to change.

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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.


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It depends on the rates they negotiate... I get 1 cent a minute to Arg. A calling card might claim to give me half a cent, but in reality you loose a lot of minutes.

Compare to 15 cents/min with FIOS after paying $5 per month or $5/min (yes DOLLARS) without the monthly fee, or 39 cents/min with Comcast...


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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...


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It is showing the countries now including India. How is Vonage when you have home security at home?


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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 !!!

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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?


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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?


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ustad said: How is Vonage when you have home security at home?

My home security is thru Vonage- works flawlessly. With two or so months free for sign up this is a great deal.


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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.


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AT&T clings to the old business of charging for voice calls in minutes. It takes not much more than 10 kilobits per second of data to handle voice. In a world of megabit per-second connections, that's nothing—hence Google's proposal to offer voice calls for no cost and heap on features galore.

What this episode really uncovers is that AT&T is dying. AT&T is dragging down the rest of us by overcharging us for voice calls and stifling innovation in a mobile data market critical to the U.S. economy.


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


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ustad said:It is showing the countries now including India. How is Vonage when you have home security at home?


It is pretty reliable with a home security system. I have tested it out a few times and it works well. Of course it depends on your Internet connection. Btw, is this deal (calls to India) available to existing customers too.


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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.


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Duplicate.

Message edited by: tuan2 on 2009-08-20 09:53:31 CDT
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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?


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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.


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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.


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super good deal!!


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