Anyone else considering switching?

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hatfieldfios join:2005-03-18 Hatfield, PA Reviews: ·VOIPo ·Vonage	Anyone else considering switching? I have been with Vonage and prior to that I had Lingo right after the Sunrocket (launched into thin air) disappeared one day. But my 12 month contract is about to expire and I am thinking of switching since I am paying $35 on average every month after taxes and fees (no extra charged calls) on $25.99 Vonage World Plan. The fees are getting to be a deal killer, totalling $9.86. Vonage World Plan for 1-(XXX)-XXX-XXXX (15/Jan-14/Feb) $25.99 Regulatory, Compliance and Intellectual Property Fee $1.99 Emergency 911 and Information Services Fee $1.99 Taxes & Fees Federal Program Fee $2.91 Sales Tax $1.97 State E911 Fee $1.00 Total Amount $35.85 I would love to hear from anyone who has recently switched from Vonage to a better, reliable and cheaper VOIP service with similar world calling plans. One that I can think of is allvoi(»www.allvoi.com)
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garys_2k Premium join:2004-05-07 Farmington, MI Reviews: ·Callcentric ·Future Nine Corp..	No experience with that provider, but I suggest you re-post over at the voip tech forum: »VOIP Tech Chat Also post your usage profile: General minutes of calls, which countries you call, would you consider a lower rate for pay as you go, would you consider buying and using your own phone adapter, that sort of thing. Good luck. BTW, I switched out of Vonage a few years ago, went with Future-Nine and am now with Callcentric.
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treichhart join:2006-12-12 Reviews: ·AT&T Wireless Br.. 1 edit	reply to hatfieldfios just call into vonage and bith at the pricing and tell them that you want to cancel the service then they will try to offer you a different price so they can keep you as a customer just tell them you want 12.50 unlimited plan but you have to talk to a account manager not a regular cs rep because I called in there and bithed about the pricing and I got to spoke to a account manager and they was able to lower my plan to 12.50 unlimited plan. If you dont want to piss around with it I would check out voipo.com for 8.25 per month for calling. I used to pay 30-35 dollars on the old vonage plan and now with my 12.50 plan I only pay 19.80 a month for a year.
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jimbopalmer Tsar of all the Rushers join:2008-06-02 Greenwood, MS kudos:2	reply to hatfieldfios I have a 200 minute plan for $9.95, comes to $15.10 per month in my state. -- I tried to remain child-like, all I achieved was childish.
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dellsweig Extreme Aerobatics Premium,MVM join:2003-12-10 Campbell Hall, NY kudos:1 Reviews: ·Vonage	reply to hatfieldfios said by hatfieldfios: I have been with Vonage and prior to that I had Lingo right after the Sunrocket (launched into thin air) disappeared one day. But my 12 month contract is about to expire and I am thinking of switching since I am paying $35 on average every month after taxes and fees (no extra charged calls) on $25.99 Vonage World Plan. The fees are getting to be a deal killer, totalling $9.86. Vonage World Plan for 1-(XXX)-XXX-XXXX (15/Jan-14/Feb) $25.99 Regulatory, Compliance and Intellectual Property Fee $1.99 Emergency 911 and Information Services Fee $1.99 Taxes & Fees Federal Program Fee $2.91 Sales Tax $1.97 State E911 Fee $1.00 Total Amount $35.85 I would love to hear from anyone who has recently switched from Vonage to a better, reliable and cheaper VOIP service with similar world calling plans. One that I can think of is allvoi(»www.allvoi.com) You get what you pay for.. I have been a Vonage customer 8 years (march 2003). Over the years there have been a couple bumps in the road - mopst attributed to my home network/router. Other than that I can say its been trouble free - how many other alternative carriers can say that? I would not consider switching to anything - UNLESS they could offer me seamless home/mobile VOIP with the same quality, reliability and features I currently enjoy with Vonage. -- Nothin' left to do but smile smile smile
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hatfieldfios join:2005-03-18 Hatfield, PA Reviews: ·VOIPo ·Vonage	@dellsweig: I had Lingo for 2 years and has DSL and FIOS each year and Lingo service was very stable(reliability), great call quality and features that I needed including international calling and had no issues at all. But I decided to switch to Vonage since their $14.99/6months promo was attractive and cheap but with taxes and fees its becoming more expensive than Lingo. Also ALLVOI (»www.allvoi.com) has a $17.99/month plan which includes international calling and meets my needs. So if noting else turns up in my search for VOIP provider, it might be ALLVOI. Any ALLVOI'ers here with any experience from either their current service or from past?
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dellsweig Extreme Aerobatics Premium,MVM join:2003-12-10 Campbell Hall, NY kudos:1 Reviews: ·Vonage	said by hatfieldfios: @dellsweig: I had Lingo for 2 years and has DSL and FIOS each year and Lingo service was very stable(reliability), great call quality and features that I needed including international calling and had no issues at all. But I decided to switch to Vonage since their $14.99/6months promo was attractive and cheap but with taxes and fees its becoming more expensive than Lingo. Also ALLVOI (»www.allvoi.com) has a $17.99/month plan which includes international calling and meets my needs. So if noting else turns up in my search for VOIP provider, it might be ALLVOI. Any ALLVOI'ers here with any experience from either their current service or from past? You HAD lingo, sunrocket..... Are they still in buisness?? Just saying you get what you pay for....... -- Nothin' left to do but smile smile smile
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PX Eliezer Premium join:2008-08-09 Hutt River kudos:12 Reviews: ·voip.ms ·callwithus ·Callcentric ·Vitelity VOIP ·Optimum Voice ·Gizmo5	said by dellsweig: You HAD lingo, sunrocket..... Are they still in buisness?? Just saying you get what you pay for....... I agree with you on that! Just FYI though, Lingo certainly is still in business. ----------------------------------- If you Vonagers are interested in other services such as CallCentric, Voip.MS, VOIPo, etc., you really should be at the main VoIP forum.... »VOIP Tech Chat Reviews: »/gbu/
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mahermusic join:2001-07-06 U.S.A. Reviews: ·T-Mobile US ·Vonage ·Comcast	reply to dellsweig said by dellsweig: You get what you pay for.. I have been a Vonage customer 8 years (march 2003). I would not consider switching to anything - UNLESS they could offer me seamless home/mobile VOIP with the same quality, reliability and features I currently enjoy with Vonage. Yup, I totally agree. BTW - I've been with Vonage since March, 2003 as well! March 7th, I believe. -- 1/20/09 = The final day of our Retarded Cowboy President!
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La Luna Survived Ashraful Premium join:2001-07-12 Warwick, NY kudos:3 Reviews: ·Vonage ·Optimum Online	reply to dellsweig said by dellsweig: You get what you pay for.. I have been a Vonage customer 8 years (march 2003). Over the years there have been a couple bumps in the road - mopst attributed to my home network/router. Other than that I can say its been trouble free - how many other alternative carriers can say that? I would not consider switching to anything - UNLESS they could offer me seamless home/mobile VOIP with the same quality, reliability and features I currently enjoy with Vonage. Totally agree. Have been with Vonage since May 2004 and wouldn't consider switching to some other service. And so many of them are fly by night companies that could disappear. -- The Alien in the White House 16,690 DEADLY TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11
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youngmoore join:2001-03-16 Marietta, GA Reviews: ·Verizon Broadban..	reply to hatfieldfios I was with vonage since the start, Customer 73 I think. I'm now with Nettalk. Its a pretty good service and I haven't had a outage yet. Plus they have their own Vid call software which is nice if you have someone on the other end thats net talk as well. You can take it with you actually, run it off your PC or plug it in any eithernet port. The unit it self is small. Anyway that's where I am these days. ym
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hatfieldfios join:2005-03-18 Hatfield, PA Reviews: ·VOIPo ·Vonage	@ youngmoore I am actually thinking about Nettalk because of its ability to plug it in my routers ethernet port. I am glad to hear from a Nettalk'er that its a pretty good service without any outages(yet). Also Nettalk offers software for use with iPhone as well as softphone. I may park my number somwhere or port my vonage number to something cheap and forward it to Nettalk number.
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aks join:2011-02-09 Framingham, MA Reviews: ·callwithus	reply to dellsweig I have been using ALLVOI from almost past one year.. till today they are reliable and sound quality is very good for the calls in US but international call are of not that great quality...but then its OK. if you choose $17.99 plan you will be paying approx $24-$25per month inclusive of all fees. Also their unlimited plan looks to be truly unlimited as I have used upto 3000 min. few times and never got any warning as I heard about Vonage. One more positive thing is their all support staff is located in US and wait time is generally 2-3 min. Having said all that I am switching from ALLVOI to callwithus for different reasons... Aks
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cork1958 Cork Premium join:2000-02-26	reply to hatfieldfios I just signed up with Vonage a week or so ago. So far loving it especially since NetFixer went WAY out his way to help me set up adapter behind router with a static IP address. For some reason I couldn't get it right and I always thought I was pretty good at networking things, but the newer VDV-22 adapter I got just didn't want to cooperate!! Compared to what a regular phone company charges JUST for phone service, I'm not going to complain about a $35.85 phone bill at all. I won't be switching anytime soon, as far as I can tell. -- The Firefox alternative. »www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
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blohner join:2002-06-26 Cortlandt Manor, NY Reviews: ·Optimum Online ·Verizon FiOS ·Google Voice ·ooma ·Vonage	reply to hatfieldfios Customer 158 here... (talk about a long time...) I am somewhat tempted to switch based on the dishonest practice of mixing fees with taxes (just like the big telco's)... But then vonage has provided me 99.9999% reliability - honestly I don't think any other VoIP can match that... -- I am addicted to speed --- FIOS speed that is ---
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snolsen join:2004-01-10 Bedford, NH	reply to hatfieldfios NO
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mahermusic join:2001-07-06 U.S.A. Reviews: ·T-Mobile US ·Vonage ·Comcast	reply to blohner said by blohner: Customer 158 here... (talk about a long time...) OK, so I gotta ask.... how do you know your customer number? -- 1/20/09 = The final day of our Retarded Cowboy President!
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blohner join:2002-06-26 Cortlandt Manor, NY Reviews: ·Optimum Online ·Verizon FiOS ·Google Voice ·ooma ·Vonage	Taking off the digits that look like a bogus starting point I am either >50000 (highly unlikely with the 2001 start date) or 158... - of course if the starting point wasn't an even number I may be off by quite a bit so this may not be 100% accurate... -- I am addicted to speed --- FIOS speed that is ---
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mahermusic join:2001-07-06 U.S.A. Reviews: ·T-Mobile US ·Vonage ·Comcast	said by blohner: Taking off the digits that look like a bogus starting point I am either >50000 (highly unlikely with the 2001 start date) or 158... - of course if the starting point wasn't an even number I may be off by quite a bit so this may not be 100% accurate... Hmmmm, I'm March of '03... but I'm not seeing anything that would resemble a numerical value of this sort in my acct. number. It's 10 digits, with the 1st three being 100, but the others are just numbers. It would be interesting, though, to find out... -- 1/20/09 = The final day of our Retarded Cowboy President!
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toy4x4 join:2001-06-26 Jenks, OK	reply to hatfieldfios I have been with Vonage since 2004. It is my work line and they don'e pay for it. So I am switching to Google Talk for the rest of 2011 and will decide what to do after that. I see no difference quality wise with Google talk versus Vonage. Add in the Google Voice number i have and I'm good to go.
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