Vonage

YOU are the no-brainer.

You have mistaken this group for misc.consumers

Is EVERYONE who wants to use Vonage an idiot?

You are already at Google. Are you too stupid to use a search engine?

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news:1185379469.975249.76050 @w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

Outright, likely not, since one has to also pay for a broadband connection. There might be a saving in it's long distance over a wired long distance, if one regularily makes long distance calls.

I could obviously save. My Comcast digital phone is only about $20 a month, butI can only call across the street, or into the next boro's without incurring added cost, with a minimun of $.22 a minuite plus long distance. Vonage works, most of the time, from what I've heard.

If I loose cable, I loose internet, TV, and phone.

I use my cell phone or phone card otherwise.

greg

Absolutely! I have VOIP with my broadband provider, and a relative has Vonage. Both work well. I need the broadband connection anyway for internet, so I don't figure that in the cost. I can call friends relatives Throughout the US with no added fees! It works well for me!

brainer....but does anyone use this service at a saving

Anybody considering VoIP should probably Google the ongoing SunRocket disaster. They had about 200,000 customers and simply went out of business overnight, stranding all of their customers!! Completly irresponsible. Good thing they were the "No Gotcha" phone company. Of course, they Gotcha money.... (Good luck with that refund in Bankruptcy - You're probably right behind the Employee Stock Ownership program.... Ha!)

IMO - VoIP really hasn't come of age yet. Vonage is being sued (by Verizon, I think, for patent infringement.) The rest seem underfunded and are certainly having trouble competing with the big cable providers for the VoIP pie.

VoIP will work for some, (quality not as good as tip-and-ring), but it is not a panacea.

-mpm