http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/12/bye-bye-vonage-phone-line/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/12/bye-bye-vonage-phone-line/#comment-41111 ignar Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:49:24 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17604#comment-41111 I also canceled Vonage recently. I ported my number to OneSuite SuiteAdvantage. Their VoIP is software based and the software client is pretty awful actually, but since all I wanted to do was keeping the number active just in case someone tries to reach me via that number, that was fine with me. SuiteAdvantage costs only $3/m and sends voicemail to my email account. I also considered Skype, but with no number portability and no voicemail emailing(come on, Skype!), it was not viable option. I also canceled Vonage recently. I ported my number to OneSuite SuiteAdvantage. Their VoIP is software based and the software client is pretty awful actually, but since all I wanted to do was keeping the number active just in case someone tries to reach me via that number, that was fine with me. SuiteAdvantage costs only $3/m and sends voicemail to my email account. I also considered Skype, but with no number portability and no voicemail emailing(come on, Skype!), it was not viable option.

]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/12/bye-bye-vonage-phone-line/#comment-41107 mchinsky Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:21:14 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17604#comment-41107 I agree to a point. However, when you live in a house with multiple people (for example, husband, wife and kids too young for cellphones) I prefer strongly to keep my cell phone reserved for "business" and not have casual friends etc calling on it as well. I still like to think of the cell for "important" calls and not just yip yap. I agree to a point. However, when you live in a house with multiple people (for example, husband, wife and kids too young for cellphones) I prefer strongly to keep my cell phone reserved for “business” and not have casual friends etc calling on it as well. I still like to think of the cell for “important” calls and not just yip yap.

]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/12/bye-bye-vonage-phone-line/#comment-41105 Elodie Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:33:26 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17604#comment-41105 I use my wired (wireless, though XD that's oddly illogical) phone quite a bit. It's included with my internet plan and it gives me free calling to a good bit of countries--one of which is the US, which is useful for calling my family! Around here (france) it's also more expensive to call a cell phone than a normal phone, so I usually give my home phone number to anything that doesn't need to reach me at any time. I think cell phone plans here are a lot more expensive than in america, though, and I can see how it's worth it for someone living there to get rid of it. I use my wired (wireless, though XD that’s oddly illogical) phone quite a bit. It’s included with my internet plan and it gives me free calling to a good bit of countries–one of which is the US, which is useful for calling my family! Around here (france) it’s also more expensive to call a cell phone than a normal phone, so I usually give my home phone number to anything that doesn’t need to reach me at any time.
I think cell phone plans here are a lot more expensive than in america, though, and I can see how it’s worth it for someone living there to get rid of it.

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