Vonage Broadband Phone Service
Limited Monthly VoIP Service Plan
Vonage's Residential Basic 500 Minutes Plan provides the following for
the unbeatable price of $17.99 a month. The plan provides for 500
minutes of outgoing calls - incoming calls are unlimited and free.
Additional minutes are billed at a low rate of 3.9 cents per minute.
This is only one of several Vonage Calling Plans to
choose from.
The Vonage basic limited plan
includes a lot of free features and services. Free features with
this Vonage broadband phone service plan include:
- Voicemail
- Voicemail to email
- 3 way conference calling
- Call waiting
- Call forwarding
- Caller ID with Name
- 911 Dialing
- E911 available in most locations
- Call transfer
- Call return
- Caller ID Blocking
- Repeat dialing
- International call blocking
- Ring lists
- Call hunt
With Vonage online account management, you can review your billing and
account details and customize your phone service features. This is
where you turn on and off certain features and list phone numbers you want
to use for call forwarding, etc...
Vonage gives customers who sign
up through their website a free VoIP adapter, which is a small device that
connects your telephone to your internet connection. The broadband
VoIP adapter can be taken with you when traveling. All that is
required is a broadband internet connection.
Vonage Optional Features
It is possible to add more telephone numbers to your Vonage VoIP
service with something called "Virtual Numbers". For a small monthly
fee, you can get a separate phone number for other members of your
household, or provide distant relatives with a "local" number to call you
on if you want to have an additional phone number in a different area
code.
For $9.99 per month, you can get a dedicated fax line that includes 250
minutes of local and long distance outgoing fax service plus unlimited
incoming faxes each month. Extra outgoing fax minutes cost 3.9 cents
per minute.
The Vonage limited broadband
phone service plan is a good option for people who don't make a lot of
outgoing calls and want to save a lot of money on their telephone bill.
With VoIP service, a broadband internet connection is required.
Broadband Internet Required for Internet Phone Service
In most cases, people get VoIP internet phone service because they want
to save money. They have their regular telephone line disconnected
and broadband phone becomes their primary phone service. If you are
currently subscribing to DSL broadband service from your phone company,
you should ask them if it is possible to disconnect your telephone but
keep the DSL service. In many cases, phone companies will not let
you do this, so you have to find broadband service elsewhere.
AT&T DSL service is now available without a telephone line. DSL is less exoensive than cable internet in most cases, and works perfectly with internet phone service. Click the AT&T banner below to find out more about high speed internet service from AT&T.
Cable television companies offer broadband service, and this is what
the majority of VoIP users have. Depending on where you live, cable
internet can be pretty expensive. The broadband internet market is
starting to get competitive as more broadband service providers enter the
arena, which is good news for consumers. If you are looking for
broadband internet service, or just want to see if you can find cheaper
broadband, the two resources below may help.
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