Signing Up

When we first signed up with Vonage, the cost was $24.99 a month + an activation fee. I’m not really sure why there was an activation fee, but after doing a little bit of research, I found out that by calling and placing the order over the phone as opposed to online, the fee could be waived. So we ended up just paying shipping charges (around $11 perhaps?) to have the VOIP box shipped out to our office. I’m sure if you look around the web there are Vonage Deals available, if not call them and waive the activation fee.

Setting Up

Setting up the box was relatively easy - plug it into the router, plug in a phone jack, and it works. I seem to recall having some minor hiccups in the beginning, but since then everything has been great.

Management + Control Panel

Probably the think we like the best about Vonage is the web based control panel. You can change your location for E911 purposes, add on additional lines so friends can call you at a local rate, enable offline/call forwarding if your internet goes down, and change your billing information. The interface is slick and easy to understand and makes using Vonage really easy.

Gripes

Gripe #1: The price is $24.99, but since the FCC treats Vonage like any other phone company, it comes out to $30 after all the various communication and telephone taxes. I’m sure this was probably in the fine print, but it still irks me a bit.

Gripe #2: Sometimes people who have caller id blocking can’t get through to us, and I haven’t found a way to turn this off yet.

Over All

We’re very happy with Vonage. It’s definitely helped us increase our overall business productivity when we travel overseas, and it’s pretty much been worth every penny. Very rarely are there dropped calls, and sound quality is what you would expect from a normal land line.

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Vonage Review

We took a look at a few calling cards and saw that the rates were very attractive:

Comfi offers calling cards to India at a rate of as low as .044 (4.4 Cents) a minute. $10 will buy you over 3 hours of quality time with family and friends back in India. To see the complete list of Comfi calling cards to India, click here.

Another strong offering for Indian Calling Cards is CallingCards.com. While the prices are slightly higher (starting at .05/minute to India), the cards have no connection fee and can be rechargeable. You can see a list of their cards here.

There are a lot of options to call India and we think the two services above have great rates and something for everybody - we highly recommend you take a look and decide which calling card best suits your needs.

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Cheap Calling Cards To India

This question is asked a lot. We recommend ReversePhoneLookup.org for reverse phone lookup services.

They’re reliable, decently priced, and get you what you need when you need it.

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Reverse Phone Lookup Services

If you’re using VOIP, here are 3 tips to get better VOIP reception and signals:

1. Make sure you have lots of upstream - the biggest bottleneck is on the upstream and not the downstream issue.
2. Run a VOIP test to see if your line can support VOIP.
3. Have your internet provider run a line review to see if the line is configured properly , otherwise your whole internet connection may be experiencing signal degradation.

This guest post was written by Bob Saggest, an expert on high speed internet and a writer on comcast deals.

His email is mrbob@gmail.com.

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3 Tips to Get Better VOIP Signals

There is a definite need out there for International Calling Cards. Not everybody has a land line that can call to countries such as India, United Kingdom or Pakistan from their home.

That’s why people often buy international calling cards that are relatively cheap:

Two companies that really worked well for us were the Comfi Calling Cards and the CallingCards.com calling cards - both offer very reasonable rates as well as prepaid and pay as you go options.

You can sign up, buy a calling card online, and get the pin and access code immediately online. Highly recommended.

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Cheap International Calling Cards