VOiP and You Impression ON it..
 

What do you think about VOiP and do you feel that it will make a large impact or residential areas and businesses.

It appears to be headed to replacing a good chunk of the landline system.

I'm on Vonage now and it works great.

I'd say long distance company's monopoly on all the gouging they've been getting away with for decades is finally over.

VOip has been the talk of telco for 3-4 years now. There are a number of problems with it which are still being worked on. For businesses in particular, they require special VOip phones which are very expensive.

VOip is the claim of the future, but most telco's have yet to get a stable platform. I could tell you a number of VOip nightmares experienced with businesses back when I was with SBC, and TDS.

One of any number of problems is if you lose power, you are effectively out of business. Unlike a landline, unless you have a phone system w/ backup. A landline has a signal provided power by a generator back at the central office. So as long as you do not have a phone that needs power to operate, you still atleast have phones, and voicemail or answering service if hosted at the central office, and not within the phone system.

I think Vonage, and residental is ahead of the business applications at this point in time. I'd say VOip is prolly another 1-2 years away from being a seriously viable alternative.

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I was on on Vonage

Trying to cancel today (the scams they try and pull to keep you a subscriber...)

Skype is way better and the new wireless VOIP phones will be great

I have Vonage and love it! VOIP is the way to go and there are some large companies that are heading that way. My brother works for a huge corporation based out of Switzerland and they are switching 50,000 phones to VOIP lines this Summer. Soon you will see the phone companies offering it. It is the only way they can survive in the long run.

SBC is rolling out their VOIP http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtm...story_id=28480

Sure it will. For the same price I have to pay $74 for BellSouth I can get Packet 8 for $25. Vonage is out because not only do they no have local number they don't off ANY number in my area code. Packet 8 has a LOCAL number

I hear about this "If you power goes out stuff" well 99% of the time that happens when there's a thunderstorm and I've been told my whole life during a thunderstorn STAY OF THE DAMNED PHONE. So WTF is the difference?

I love my Voip been on it for 3 years now

I use Lingo. I have a London phone number for an extra $10 and my package ($20) includes all the voicemail and call extras, and unlimited calls to USA, Canada, and most of Western Europe.
If anyone is interested, I can refer people and we both get a $25 credit for it. They're are running a first month free special right now, too.

We have vonage and love it, they start doing the wifi phones more hot spots it will kick cellulars ass.