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Review by w76990 See Profile

  • Location: Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
  • Cost: $15 per month
  • Install: about 10 days
Reliablity;Price;Support
500 minute plan OK
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I've had ITP (itp4you.com) service for about 6 weeks since porting from Teleblend.
Porting was done in 10 days (had to re-fax the requested form as they said they didn't
receive it the first time). Support has been OK. I've had 2 trouble tickets resolved in
a day of submitting them (neither one was critical). One trouble issue was a slowdown
of my internet browser. A tech person emailled me help and called late in the day and
we re-arranged the hookup of adapter to modem and computer. Problem solved.

I intend to remain a customer of the 500 minute plan which is advertised as $9.99.
Actual last bill was $15.23. I didn't print out the Terms of Service but I guess that's
where additional fees are stated.

Again, as of this date (09/27/07) I would recommend ITP.

UPDATED: As of November 2009 I am still a customer and service has been reliable. I have not had any problems. The only loss of service was due to loss of cable and only for a few hours. Would recommend the 500 minute plan if that meets your need.

Final update (its goodby). I'v transitioned to PhonePower a year ago and enrolled in the 2 year plan. Starting 2nd
year and service now. Reliable company.


member for 16.6 years, 231 visits, last login: 12.3 years ago
updated 12.9 years ago

neftv
join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA

neftv

Member

The fees and Taxes?

Nice Review. I almost went with these guys a while back.
Anyway, in section Q it says "Any customer of ITP that is billed by ITP will be accessed a $1.99 E911 and a line fee in addition to a $0.99 gross receipt surcharge"

But that does not account for the rest to get to $15.23? I would think you want to know that. I am curious as to what is the extra $2.26 for exactly?
zeke56
join:2009-03-22
Naperville, IL

zeke56

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Re: The fees and Taxes?

But that does not account for the rest to get to $15.23? I would think you want to know that. I am curious as to what is the extra $2.26 for exactly?
I have the same service. My bill is $15.07. The itemized charges are $1.99 for E911, $1.10 for universal service fee, and $1.99 for the "ITP line fee". This hidden fee is about the only thing I don't like about the service.

Review by zeke56 See Profile

  • Location: Naperville, Du Page, IL, USA
  • Cost: $15 per month
  • Install: about 2 days
reliability, ease of use
hidden fees
Simple, reliable and reasonable cost
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This is an update to the original review that follows:

We have now been using ITP's service for about two years, and I am still about as happy w/ ITP as I could be. In the time since my original review we still have not experienced an outage. For the most part, call quality has continued to be consistent and high. We did have a period of a couple of weeks with a lot of voice cutouts, right about the time we upgraded our AT&T dsl service to 6Mb from 3Mb. When I called ITP about the call quality they answered quickly as always, and immediately transferred me to a support engineer who sounded like he knew what he was talking about. He told me he could see a lot of dropped packets and latency in the call logs, and that the traceroute test he performed showed response times were jumping up when the packets reached AT&T's network, and suggested we contact them. When I did a traceroute I could see much the same thing, with intermittent spikes up to several hundred ms. I spent several days trying to find someone at AT&T who even understood what I was talking about (the first off-shore "service" rep laboriously ground thru his script to "instruct" me how to ping www.yahoo.com, and when that succeeded, claimed I had no problem). During this time the ITP rep left phone messages and sent emails each day asking about the status of my contact w/ AT&T. As it looked like the problems were clearing up on their own, I finally closed the ticket (eventually they did clear up and since that time we have had no problems). The bottom line is that the ITP support was very responsive, and as far as I can tell w/ my state of knowledge, competent.

end of update 1/2011

I have been happy w/ ITP from the beginning, when the supplied Linksys SPA2102 hardware arrived more quickly than I expected, 2 or 3 business days after my online order. Set up was truly plug and play. Porting our landline number took about 2 1/2 weeks and proceeded w/o noticeable interruption in service - we simply noticed a test call in the logs and emails reporting the completion of the port and the update of our e911 info. The company web site claims to be able to provide numbers in ~220 area codes, which I believe is about 80% of the area codes in the US.

There is no contract or prepayment w/ our service plan - I don't even think they offer such. There was a $30 set up fee, plus shipping and handling, with a free 1st month which pretty much canceled the shipping fee, for a net of about $30. It's important to note that they are not selling you the equipment w/ this fee, and the advertised "free equipment" means that they are providing the equipment w/ no rental fee while you're using the service, not giving you the device. This seemed pretty clear to me when I signed up, but this point seems to be the source of some dissatisfaction w/ the company.

We signed up for the 500min/mo plan (inbound is unlimited), and typically use about 250-300min/mo both in and out. A sizable majority of our calls are to a few area codes in Illinois and a couple in New England. In about 11 months we have never experienced a noticeable interruption in service or dropped calls, nor have we experienced any artifacts like echos or latencies. Call quality is consistent and comparable to our former landline - in the words of my wife, "it sounds like a phone". We have experienced voice dropouts, which at some point suddenly got worse, and tests showed that our cable internet was getting very choppy every evening around "internet rush hour". We have since switched to DSL and this problem has disappeared.

The web site is far from beautiful or elegant, but it is functional for what I want, always loads quickly and has been available every time I've tried it. On the web site one can listen to voice mails, check call logs and account status, and configure calling features. The service provides a full range of features, including fail-over on internet outage, sequential or simultaneous ring to up to three additional numbers, black lists, etc. I've used or tested most features, and every one has worked.

The toll-free support is US-based, and they have always answered very quickly. I've called for information and a couple of times to resolve an odd billing quirk - there was a cluster of spurious calls one month. I did have to call support a couple of times to get this resolved. The first agent told me they would get the technical people to look at it to find out what happened before adjusting the account balance, then on the web site the support status showed the issue as closed. When I called again, the second agent didn't know why the other person had not credited the account at once, and did so, with the status on the web site updating within a few minutes of my call.

If I have a complaint it's the "line fee" of $1.99, which effectively raises the monthly rate to $11.98/mo, not the advertised $9.95. The bottom line w/ universal service fee and e911 fee is $15.07. I believe the exact amount will vary slightly in different areas.

I don't believe this is the cheapest service out there, but given the reliability and quality we have experienced I would say the value for money is excellent. This no doubt is not a service for those who make a second career monkeying w/ their VOIP equipment, but based on my experience I would say this is an excellent possibility for someone who wants a simple, inexpensive, drop-in replacement for a landline.

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updated 13.1 years ago


Review by rkdigital See Profile

  • Location: Norman, Cleveland, OK, USA
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
No contract, monthly very low
have to pay for router
Quality VOIP service at a great rate

Without having to sign a yearly contract and selling you a good Cisco SPA 2102 router for 34.95 with a monthly fee of only about $11 a month after taxes, with E911 service I find to be a great deal. The router comes pre-configured from them so all you have to do is plug it into your router behind your own firewall, and hook up your normal type POTS telephone and away you go. I have had no issues, or any kind of trouble from them at all.

Great company, NO CONTRACT, and a great monthly rate.

Saves me $45 a month over AT&T's POTS service, just switched over to DSL w/o voice and combined with my cell bill to keep my discount. This is the way to go.

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updated 14.4 years ago


Review by bmurr3608 See Profile

  • Location: Chandler, Maricopa, AZ, USA
  • Cost: $15 per month
  • Install: about 30 days
Very good call quality.... So FAR
the 1.99 line fee that is is hidden in the small print, Its not 9.99 for the 500 min plan, its 11.98
no free soft phone
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The call quality is very good, way better than VOIP.com. I got the 500 min plan for $9.99. Turns out its 11.98 plus tax and E911 fee. The order and install was very easy. They use Linksys equipment. I will try them for a year and see what happens.

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Review by leah16 See Profile

  • Location: Fiddletown, Amador, CA, USA
  • Cost: $19 per month
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Don't bother with ITP VoIP, its one step away from FRAUD. They have not listed a physical address and their business hours are unknown as of March 25th 2009. Although ITP VoIP states the order will take 1-3 days to process and no longer than 7 days to receive your equipment, your order will not get processed until a telephone number is assigned for you. If you cancel your order because you cannot wait any longer for ITP VoIP to assign you a telephone number, then be ready to have severe headaches. Even though you haven't received any equipment, service, and your account has NOT been activated they will SCAM you $29.95 activation fee.

No one goes out of their way to write a bad review, however do NOT believe those good reviews on other websites because most likely ITP VoIP employees wrote them. The only reason I ordered their Plan is because of those good reviews that I read on those website and now I am going out of my way to enlighten the public about ITP VoIP.

member for 15 years, driveby review (so far)
updated 15 years ago


Review by Roop See Profile

  • Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • Cost: $15 per month (month by month)
  • Install: about 10 days
Fairly cheap but there are cheaper services
Tech support is rude and incompetant, service interuptions
AVOID THEM
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Here's a ticket I opened with them:

My service has been very unreliable in the last few days. People have been unable to call me (I confirmed with my cell - fast busy or my vm box). I have been unable to get a dial tone. Sometimes resetting the ATA fixes it, sometimes the ATA just has a blinking green Line 1 light. My internet connection has not been going down. As I'm typing to you, I have a blinking line 1 light and no dial tone. Fix it ASAP and I want 1 month of free service.

Here's the response I received 5 days later:

Dear Roop, - Are you having dropped calls? - Quality issues? - Inbound or outbound calls failing? Please provide an example of the problem you are reporting. Include the telephone number and the time the issue occurred. Without this key information we cannot look into the request any further. Melvin ITP Technical Support 888-487-1110 (US) 888-548-8820 (CA)

They didn't even read my email before they responded. I was very clear to them. This issue usually happens once a month with itp. Typically it only lasts a couple hours. I'm cancelling them after my free month. I cannot recommend this service to anyone.

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updated 16.4 years ago


ITP in VA
@comcast.net

ITP in VA

Anon

Service is good

have had ITP since end of July 07 and the service
has been stable, clear, all features work well and I
have no complaints, basic home service with online
manager. Also have Teleblend which is very good too
because it is the ol' sun rocket equipment incl the
online acct mgr. randy