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 ======================================= *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.
Message edited by: ossidon on 2009-08-22 16:22:14 CDT
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.
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...
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 $$$.)
Just finished helping my Bangladesh friend (who got out from Vonage for the above reason), to set up "Google Voice + Sipgate + SipSorcery". Now, she & her family in Bangladesh are having "truly free" domestic calls & the calls to Bangladesh.
CheapCheap1 said:Beware...!!! Eventaully, Vonage will screw you later, by changing the term for "free" calls to be "paid" calls (whenever they see the potential to make $$$.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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