April 29th, 2009
AT&T and Verizon are both getting out of the residential VoIP game. They have both announced that they will no longer sign up new customers, and their current customers should be looking for new providers. Callvantate belongs to AT&T, and Voicewing is Verizon’s failed VoIP attempt.
Current customers of Callvantage or Voicewing, who are going to need new internet phone service, or who are switching back to land line service, should visit Calling-Plans.com’s Internet Phone Service and Local Phone Service pages.
Tags: AT&T, Callvantage, Cancel Phone Service, Verizon, Voicewing
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April 16th, 2009
FierceTelecom popped a story today that said that eBay was going to do an IPO on Skype next year. What’s interesting is if they said that to get a higher price from the old Skype owners, who are trying to buy it back, or because Skype has over 400,000,000 users. (And that’s a whole lot of potential customers that somebody ought to be able to figure out how to make money with…)
You can read the story at FierceTelecom.com.
Tags: Skype IPO
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February 2nd, 2009
According to Venturebeat.com, Yoomba has gone out of business, shut it’s doors and ran away. Just like Yoomba, there are lot’s of other VoIP companies currently on their way out of business, so if you’re interested in switching to VoIP from your land line system, or you are a Yoomba customer looking for a new way to make phone calls, make sure you do your reseach first.
Companies that have been around a long time, and have enough money and customers to stay afloat, are companies like Lingo, Packet8 and even Vonage; though they still make me nervous. Like I said, do your research, see who has enough operating capital for the next year, and only sign up for a month to month plan. (You don’t want to end up paying $199.00 for a year’s worth of service, only to have the company go bankrupt the next week)
Tags: bankrupt, VoIP, vonage, Yoomba
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January 20th, 2009
Phonepower is running a special right now, where you can get unlimited residential local and long distance phone service for only $9.95 per month for three months. After three months, the rate goes up to $19.95 per month.
If you’ve been thinking about trying VoIP to save money on your phone bill, then this is a great deal for you. Just sign up for Phonepower VoIP service and try it out without cancelling your current land line sevice. If you like it, then around month two, you can fill out the paperwork to have your current phone number transfered to your Phonepower account. You will then be able to cancel your expensive local and long distance plans and just keep the phone service from Phonepower.
Remember, you can hook your VoIP router from your high speed modem to your home telephone wiring system. Just plug the phone line from the router into a phone jack in the wall, and then plug your regular telephones into the phone jacks in your house. (If you plug into the house system though, the one thing you need to remember to do is go out to the grey box on the side of your house and disconect the wires that run into your house from the pole or phone box.)
Tags: Phonepower, VoIP Special offers, VoIP Specials
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January 13th, 2009
PRNewswire ran a PR news release for Verizon today that says that Verizon is in the process of installing voice over internet phone services to 12 schools in the Sherman School District in Texas. The reason that I find this article, and others like it, interesting is that it shows a snapshot of what is happening all across the country; landlines are being replaced by VoIP in a wholesale fashion.
If you think about this small school district in Texas, bringing in the technology to replace the phone service to 12 schools, serving 6,100 students, think of what’s happening around the country in larger metropolitian areas. I remember seeing a small piece in the Oregonian a few years back that said that Oregon has lost 3% of their land lines in 2002 alone. Those kinds of numbers really make you sit up and pay attention.
Check out Verizon’s Internet Phone Service if you live in one of the areas they service and would like to get rid of your land line and start saving money too.
Tags: calling plans, internet phone, Verizon, VoIP
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January 12th, 2009
This is my new VoIP blog, where I’ll be posting information on companies offering VoIP products and services, information on how VoIP works, and how to get the most out of the products you have.
I’ll also be posting videos on how to wire your new VoIP adapter into your existing home telephone or office system. This will make it so that your VoIP system works just like a hard-wired phone system. Once you get the router wired in to your current phone system, and find out just how good VoIP can be, you’ll wonder why you didn’t switch to VoIP 2 years ago and put that extra $2,000.00 in your retirement account instead of sending it to Ma Bell. LOL
Stay tuned, and thanks for dropping by.
Tags: blogs, internet phone, VoIP
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