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 Review by year2053 
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 6.2 years, 590 visits, last login: 106 days ago
 Brooklyn,Kings,NY
 $30 per month
 about 4 days
 "Low Bill 30$"
 "Hold time waiting for customer service/tech support unacceptably slow"
 "So far so good"
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I got My Ta a few days set it up, but had some problems with my linksys router. i fixed most issues on my own, but funny, while on the phone with tech i broke my router so i had to order a new one, on Amazon.com for 59$$, Any how i had some problems with the site not wantin to Update my Ta after callin tech so many times i gave up, messed around with it my self got it work, service is up & runin, I say get it 30Bucks is damn good, Also I say if Your going order wait until After Monday or call & find out when they are shipping the New TA's Dlink Sucks.
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Review by rkc3
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 6.3 years, 608 visits, last login: 3.4 years ago
Dacula,Gwinnett,GA
$29 per month
"Features AND works pretty much like regular telephone"
"does not work during power outage"
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Easy to order and install. Outbound calls enabled right away. On effective date, inbound calls properly routed to VOIP. Local provider (AT&T UNEP from BellSouth) ported the old number - no problem. Not too hard to enable all phones in residence.
My family likes the features - especially the network-based answering machine and locate-me.
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Review by jscragg
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 5.1 years, 9 visits, last login: 2.2 years ago
Canton,Cherokee,GA
$29 per month
about 3 days
"Easy to order & setup. Great call quality & features."
"TA currently must reside between your router and your cable modem. Local number not eligible for porting."
"With the recent price reduction and the superior quality, this deal just keeps getting better."
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Ordered the service and equipment from AT&T and got the TA it in a couple days. Hooked it up, went to the website and clicked on Activate TA, it worked. That simple. The calls sound good and the features are easy to use and manage. This is my first foray into VoIP so I do not have experience with any other service to compare it to, but I never thought I would be so pleased with an experience from AT&T. For all of thier problems (particularly in the residential market), they seem to have gotten this right.
I do not like having the TA on the edge of my home network, I would rather have it behind the my router. But the real thorn in my side at this point is my land line phone number not being eligible for porting. I don't know who to blame on this one, my POTS carrier, AT&T or the FCC. I called my POTS carrier, Alltel, and they tell me it is not a problem on there end. AT&T only tells me that they cannot currently port the number and that they just recently starting porting numbers from carriers other than the baby bells. I checked with Vonage to see if they could port my number over for new service and they cannot port it either.
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Review by frankx99
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 9.5 years, 346 visits, last login: 2 years ago
Glen Ridge,Essex,NJ
$19 per month (12 month contract)
about 4 days
"Voice quality"
"took a call to tech support to fix bandwith issue"
"tried 2 other VOIP providers, ATT wins easily"
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tried 2 other VOIP providers, ATT wins easily
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 Review by jmvolfan3
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 9.3 years, 288 visits, last login: 4 years ago
Knoxville,Knox,TN
$29 per month (12 month contract)
about 12 days
"Easy Setup / Call Quality"
"Tech support hold times"
"Great Value, Great Features. Great Call Quality"
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Ordered service after reading reviews on BBR. Ordering was simple over the phone. I had my home phone ported from Bellsouth as well and figured this would be a challange. Called ATT a few days after my order to verify and was told the exact port date. Was also imformed I would reveive an email informing me of the dates and arrival of my adapter. I have yet to receive an email but the dates they advised on the phone were exact. I now have all 3 phones in my house running off of the adapter and everything is working fine.
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 Review by The Beer
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 8.3 years, 2526 visits, last login: 4 days ago
Council Bluffs,Pottawattamie,IA
$29 per month (12 month contract)
about 5 days
"It's just been a+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
"Router in front of everything breaks my IPSEC VPN"
"Once the router issue is solved soon, I will not look back"
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AT&T is one of the 2 providers who decided to serve Omaha (With Packet8)
I have used Vonage, since they will be coming soon to Nebraska (In December 2002) but since they never did, I dropped them.
Packet8 did not work well with DSL, & had no features
CallV has worked perfectlty, no outages to date.
Only one snag was when I ported my number from Qwest I already had a CallVantage account, the rep, confused ordered me a complete new service.
I then received a new TA and mis-activated it because I was unaware of a "New" Account.
I couple of phone calls and it was worked out.
So far I am VERY happy however I would like to put it behind my router so my VPN's will work right.
A+++++
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 Review by skullz5
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 7.4 years, 2683 visits, last login: 100 days ago
Clementon,Camden,NJ
$19 per month (12 month contract)
about 5 days
"AT & T, excellent call quality, great customer service"
"10 digit dialing"
"Great value for the money. best phone quality in VOIP"
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I am the type of person who likes to try everything. Examples:
Voicepulse Jan-Apr 2004: I cancelled them because to me the service just sucked, always down more then it was up. The adapter went bad and it was just a mess.
Vonage May-Aug 2004: I liked vonage but to me they just didnt offer enough features and within two weeks there were 3 outages then I had a big billing problem that they didnt wanna fix so I ditched them, and said lets give AT&T a try.
The AT&T is the best out there, it is clear and loud. I signed up over the phone on Sept 15th, the first 6 months are 19.99 and free activation and the free DLink phone adapter. The DLink arrived on September 21st and I was up and running within 10 minutes. Call quality is great, web site has been updated as of the past couple days and it is nice. But I just cant get over the phonecall quality, getting your phone messages is a bit of a pain seems like alot of steps, but all in all its the best VOIP and it is a keeper.
And now that they have lowered the price to 29.99 its even better. People ask me why VOIP, because the monopoly phone companys kill me for how much the charge for the same service but less features (verizon 54.95). Check it out, you wont be sorry, my favorite feature is the scheduled DND (do not disturb).
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Review by Albertunm3
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 5.1 years, 2 visits, last login: 5.1 years ago
Albuquerque,Bernalillo,NM
$35 per month (12 month contract)
"Ease of Ordering, setup, and use."
"Provisioning and tech support"
"I am only trying call vantage until comcast voip is available in my area which is less than a year from now."
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Had no problem ordering service online and received kit wo a prob and set up was a snap how ever i had ported over my old qwest telephone # and to this day i am still having porting problems. at first my # when to qwest's voicemail system. and now since i started calling in got that resolved but now i get a disconnect msg so am still unable to receive phone calls can make calls fine. i was suppose to be fully activated and provisioned by sept 7th but it is the 29th and still cannot receive phone calls. so looks like i will be asking for a huge adjustment on my bill once this gets resolved. my contract doesnt actually start until one month from activation so until Oct 7th so we ll see what happens. right now im on the phone with call vantage right now trying to get my provissioning resolved. will keep you all posted as to what happens.
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Review by cahiatt
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 8.6 years, 1388 visits, last login: 1 days ago
Smyrna,Cobb,GA
Contract price not specified.
about 15 days
"Excellent call quality"
"Network pig, higher cost, it's AT&T"
"If price is no option, jump on it."
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I beta tested the service and found the call quality and features to be very much on par with POTS. I never had a problem missing inbound calls, dropped calls or failure to connect on outbound calls. That part of the service was very reliable. That rounds out the good. On the other hand, installation wasn't the plug and play they make it out to be for me. I use bridged/static DSL service so my equipment had to be reconfigured as well as plugging in the IP/DNS details into the ATT equipment for everything to go online. The adapter also consumed nearly 95% of network bandwidth during a call. My 1500/768 service dropped literally to 80/45k during a call. Try running a home server behind this thing...At the time, there was also no simple solution to place the adapter on the backside of the netowrk. After many calls, the problem was never resolved during the trial and when pricing was announced, decided that I could have less headaches for much less money.
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Review by aximr
Posted: 5.1 years ago
member for 8.1 years, 2487 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Tarrytown,Westchester,NY
$34 per month (12 month contract)
about 4 days
"Outstanding Call Quality, Awesome Features, Reliability"
"T/A in front of Router"
"Wow, Can't go wrong with CallVantage"
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I had vonage, signed up with them in 2-03 styed with them for over a year, then tried Broadvox for 2 months. Got ATT CallVantage as a beta tester and signed up with them when they went live. Call quality is unbeliveable. Compared to Vonage and Broadvox the difference is night and day. No distortion at all. With Both Vonage and Broadvox there were echos, choppyness and many outages as well as some voice mail problems. None with CallVantage and the features are far superior too. Just got a simple reach number which is the same as Vonages's virtual number for 4.99. Eventually I have been told you will be able to place the T/A behind the router, for some this is an issue, for me it hasn't been. If your looking for a VoIP provider, look no further!
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