Comments on: Money Saving Monday Tip#5 – Use Digital Phone Service

By: glblguy

glblguy — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:01:54 +0000

@Justin – Mine wasn’t either. Because I was moving from a local phone company to Vonage.

Vonage has a feature that if your power or internet connection is out, it will route your calls to a number you specify (in our case our cell phones).

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:44:40 +0000

@Pinyo: My number for some reason isn’t portable. The power also goes out with enough frequency to make a VOIP line too unreliable.

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:53:35 +0000

@glblguy – good post, I just changed to digital myself and saved quite a bit of money since all calls within US are included in the plan. No problem so far here.

@justin – you can keep the same number. If all hell break loose, I can use my cell phone for emergency. However, you may not have that option if you are out of range.

By: justin

justin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:07:35 +0000

Talk about being bent over, $80 for phone service?

We keep the POTS line for two reasons. Everyone knows the number and it works when the cable and/or power are out.

I have recently started using Skype for my international calls, it is working wonderfully and I picked up a plugin stand-alone skype phone and a SkyeIn number in Australia for family to call me for local rates.

Our US long distance is mostly on the cells.

We pay just over $20 a month for bare-bones POTS.

By: glblguy

glblguy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:21:21 +0000

Hi Jake, glad you found me :-) We had the same issue with clarity, but a few calls to customer service and a few tweaks on the sound quality vs. bandwidth settings and as was well. We still have the occasional problem, but given the cost I really can’t complain.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:52:39 +0000

Hi! Found your blog via MyBlogLog. Glad to hear you are so satisfied with Vonage. I just signed up with them a month ago. We did have a few clarity problems but I think they’ve been worked out.