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November 5, 2004

Bon Voy-Vonnage

Matt Blumberg had a great post the other day about VOIP (Voice Over IP) phone service from Vonnage.

It was great timing. I had just finished paying some "home office" bills - including the local telco - Qwest, for my POTS line for my office, AT&T for the basic Long Distance service, as well as reviewing the same for our regular home line. We easily shell out $100 - $150 total per month with moderate long distance use.

Reading Matt's post, Vonnage is a perfect solution.

  • Quality is solid.
  • Multiple numbers per account
  • Works with Tivo
  • You can keep your old phone number.
  • No minimums and no contracts.
  • No one has to come install anything.
  • 911 and 311 service.
  • Voicemail
  • Call Waiting
  • Call Forwarding
  • Caller ID
  • Domestic and Long Distance in USA and Canada included
Wow. Why wouldn't you do it? As Matt said, you do need Cellular as a backup, should your Cable Modem or DSL service which carries Vonnage go down. Ours hasn't been down in 3+ years (knock on wood) so that doesn't put me off. Still, it feels strange to kill the land line.

I was already to sign up, but hit my first road block. Vonnage can not "transfer" our particular 303 area code numbers. It would be ideal to keep our numbers - still I'm so keen on trying this service, I opted to test it out with a newly assigned number. Wrong. Vonnage can not assign me a 303 number, only a 720 - the newer exchange in Colorado.

This is a bit more of a road block - most of our friends/family could deal with a new 303 number, but would probably complain about a 720 number - I don't know a single person with that area code.

So for now I'm stuck and will have to think about it. Bon Voy-Vonnage for now. If anyone knows of any alternatives to Vonnage, I may give those a try. That or if you know the CEO at Qwest who can release my 303 numbers, that'd be great too. ;)

Posted by gcrgcr at November 5, 2004 1:48 PM

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