We got a new vonage phone at our house yesterday. It’s pretty cool, if you haven’t heard of them it uses voice over IP and connects your phone over your broadband connection. It’s only $24.95/month for unlimited local and long distance to the US and Canada.
It has some really neat features too. Since it’s VOIP you can choose whatever area code you want. So say you're going to college in one state but all your family is in another state you can have a phone number that is local to your home and add another number to the line that is local to the college. Then your friends and family from home can call you locally.
You can also take the adapter with you and plug it in anywhere that has broadband access and you have your number with you. That means you can plug it into your braodband in your dorm and when you go home for Christmas or summer take it with you and have your phone number at home, or wherever else you want to take it.
It also comes with caller ID, call forwarding, voicemail, etc. The voicemail is cool too, it actually sends you an email telling you that you have voicemail and what number it was left by.
Anyway, just thought this was pretty cool, may be a good solution for you college people to call home and have home call you without high cell phone bills. If anyone is interested let me know. I got a coupon with mine that let’s anyone I refer get 2 free months of service if they sign up.
It has some really neat features too. Since it’s VOIP you can choose whatever area code you want. So say you're going to college in one state but all your family is in another state you can have a phone number that is local to your home and add another number to the line that is local to the college. Then your friends and family from home can call you locally.
You can also take the adapter with you and plug it in anywhere that has broadband access and you have your number with you. That means you can plug it into your braodband in your dorm and when you go home for Christmas or summer take it with you and have your phone number at home, or wherever else you want to take it.
It also comes with caller ID, call forwarding, voicemail, etc. The voicemail is cool too, it actually sends you an email telling you that you have voicemail and what number it was left by.
Anyway, just thought this was pretty cool, may be a good solution for you college people to call home and have home call you without high cell phone bills. If anyone is interested let me know. I got a coupon with mine that let’s anyone I refer get 2 free months of service if they sign up.
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