Java Glossary : Vonage

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An Internet phone service that uses ordinary telephones on both ends. It requires you have cable or similar high speed internet service already installed. It is sufficiently advanced that you could discard your ordinary telephone service. It works with a CISCO ATA (Analog Terminal Adapter, a little router-like computer that attaches to your LAN (and thus cable Internet service) that converts analog voice to digital TCP/IP and back) The wallphones in your house then plug into the ATA.

From then on, you use it just like an ordinary telephone for both local and long distance calls, both outgoing and incoming. You have an ordinary telephone number, much the way you would with a cellphone. You can optionally keep your current phone number. One of my friends/customers signed up and he is quite happy with it. Most of the time, I can't tell the quality apart from the ordinary long distance phone service. However, sometimes for hours at a time, the calls keep breaking up, where you hear only every second word. It is highly irritating. One major catch is it does not have 911 service yet, though it is promised. So you would probably want to use a cell phone or ordinary wall phone for just that.

There are two payment plans: $40.00 USD which includes unlimited domestic long distance and $26.00 USD which includes unlimited regional long distance and 500 minutes of long distance. Additional minutes are charged at about $0.06 USD a minute depending on the country. There is an additional installation fee of $10.00 USD to cover shipping you the CISCO ATA.

When you sign up, if you are referred by an existing customer, you get a $40.00 USD credit to your account. He also gets a bonus. If you want, I'll ask my friend to refer you. All I need is your email id.

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