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October 14th, 2009
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Anyone use Voip business phone service?
I was looking at 8x8 inc. | |
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October 14th, 2009
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| Re: Anyone use Voip phone service?
Hi,
I am writing from Australia. I have been using VOIP for about 15months. The main problem is if your internet falls out for any reason you don't have a phone and people often complain that it is breaking up. But calls are cheap. | |
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October 15th, 2009
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I use Vonage, brilliant! I have a decent cable internet which is up 99.9% so no problems.
Your UPLOAD speed is the important one, download is usually fine. A 2Mb download may only have a 256kb upload speed and if that drops you can get drop out. We have a 10Mb/1Mb service and run the fax service as well with little problem though the fax is fussier than the phone. | |
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October 15th, 2009
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Hi
I live in Australia and have been using VOIP for 12 months NAKED ADSL 2+ , I use http://www.engin.com.au 15 gig download no upload charge no line charge and free calls Australia wide + 20 major countries have not had a problem yet
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October 15th, 2009
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I have been using cablevision for about 7 years when they first started here in NY Yeah when cable or your electricty goes out so does your phone. But we have 3 cell phones here in the house. If its gonna be out for a while I call cable and have them call foward my calls to a cell no big deal | |
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October 15th, 2009
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| Re: Anyone use Voip phone service?
If we have 'network unavailable' it automatically forwards to another phone, even mobiles are fairly cheap. | |
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October 15th, 2009
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We have been using Vonage in our home for about 4 years and we loved it so when we moved our shop we said goodbye traditional and hello VOIP. We have a fax and 2 lines for far less then any of the other carriers. Plus Vonage will forward your calls to anywhere if you should ever loose power. AWESOME product highly recommend!! | |
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October 15th, 2009
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A word of warning, Vonage has lost a court case to Verizon, which I believe is ongoing.
Vonage has to change technology or cease.
You should be able to port your number out of there anyway. | |
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October 15th, 2009
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...but it is great, you can see why normal telecos want to sue them out of existence. | |
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October 15th, 2009
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I don't use VoIP but I have a lot of people who call... unfortunately, I can always tell because many times (not always) they're breaking up so I can barely make out what they're saying. Hate it when people call using VoIP.....If you can get a good connection you're lucky. Otherwise, I don't think it's realiable enough for business purposes. | |
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