Insight Communications began marketing local and long-distance calling packages to its cable-system customers in the Springfield, Peoria, Champaign, Rockford and Decatur markets the last few weeks for costs ranging from $30 to $50 per month.Actually, the advertisement I saw priced the service at something like $40. Just as a point of reference, we have Vonage and even with taxes it costs us less than $32 a month.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Phone Cable
I noticed yesterday that Insight Communications was advertising a new cable/internet phone service. The SJ-R has a write-up about it today.
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4 comments:
Dave-
Fellow Vonage user here. I love Vonage, and I'm so glad we made the switch when we moved into our house. Other than a few glitches here and there (which have mostly ceased), I couldn't be happier with Vonage.
John
I recall the day I finally called up Ameritec to cancel our land line.
I told my wife at the end of the call, "Honey, sure I added services instead of cancelling, but we'll actually save money!"
She was disgusted with me.
I finally called them back, stood up the the customer service person, and cancelled our traditional land line.
We were already using cell phones by then anyway.
Still, we wanted a homephone.
So I checked out Vonage. For a year we had Vonage, even before they offered a 217 area code.
I called just before the official 217 release date for Vonage, and was lucky, and obtained a easy to remember phone number.
At the time Vonage was 24.99 which included a small federal charge.
Since then Congress has forced IP phone services to pay taxes similar to traditional phone services.
As Dave said it's still a tremendous bargain at around $32/month for unlimited local, unlimited long distance, and even free calls to Europe.
And that doesn't even include all of the services included in their package.
Except for the occassional need to reset the modem by unplugging, and then replugging in the Internet Phone Modem we've never had a problem.
And Vonage has excellent customer service too!
The days of Ma Bell are over.
JP
wow, I feel so cool :)
I, too, am a Vonage user. I also have their fax service and was at one time thinking of getting their 800 number service.
One point to consider when using the internet phones is that you cannot dial 911 ( at least as of last year. The problem may have been fixed, but it is something that should be looked into.
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