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It’s time to take a look at another international unlimited calling plan. This time let’s take a closer look at the Call Asia Plan, another way to communicate around the world without breaking the bank.

Again, the Call Asia plan can be purchased on top of either the Business Unlimited Plan or the Residential Unlimited plan. It costs an additional $10/month on top of whichever of the two plans you have. The total cost of the Call Asia Plan would is listed below.

- with the Unlimited Residential Plan - $34.99/month

- with the Unlimited Business Plan - $59.99/month

Like it says, the Call Asia Plan is good to call Asia and other surrounding areas. Let’s take a look at exactly where this new plan covers.

- Australia

- Bangladesh - Chittagong

- Bangladesh - Dhaka (Dacca)

- China (including Mobile)

- Guam

- Hong Kong (Including Mobile)

- Japan

- Malaysia (except Johar - Bahru)

- New Zealand

- Saipan (including Mobile)

- Singapore (including Mobile)

- South Korea

- Taiwan

- Thailand (including Mobile)

- Turkey - Ankara

- Turkey - Istanbul (Asian Side)

- Turkey - Istanbul (European Side)

Being able to call all the above locations and even mobile phone in many areas for one flat rate can save hundreds of dollars on your international calls. Check it out! vonage-promotions.com

As mentioned before, the new international calling plans are now available! We have already given a brief overview of these plans. Now we’re going to put them in detail for you.

These plans are added on top of a residential unlimited plan or a business unlimited plan.

The Call Mexico and Latin America Plan costs an additional $15/month on top of which ever unlimited plan you are currently using. In other words, the total cost of the Call Mexico and Latin America Plan would be as follows.

- with the Unlimited Residential Plan - $39.99/month

- with the Unlimited Business Plan - $64.99/month

So now let’s talk about exactly which parts of the world you can call with this plan. Here’s the list . . .

- Argentina

- Brazil

- Chile

- Colombia - Barranquilla

- Colombia - Bogota

- Colombia - Cali

- Colombia - Medellin

- Mexico - Acapulco

- Mexico - Cancun

- Mexico - Chihuahau

- Mexico - Ciudad Juarez

- Mexico - Guadalajara

- Mexico - Leon

- Mexico - Merida

- Mexico - Mexico City

- Mexico - Monterrey

- Mexico - Puebla

- Mexico - San Luis Potosi

- Mexico - Tijuana

- Panama

- Panama - Panama City

- Peru - Lima

- Venezuela

So there you have it. For only $39.99/month residential plan or $49.99/month business plan, you can enjoy unlimited calling to all of the above mentioned places. Call your far away loved ones or make international business calls for one low fixed rate. The Call Mexico and Latin America plan is surely one of the best ideas to hit the telephone industry since VoIP itself was invented.

Vonage Voicemail has a cool feature that allows you to print up your voicemail messages. When I first heard this I thought it was a tad useless. It didn’t take me long to realize what a handy and powerful tool it really is.

In a hurry to an important meeting a few weeks ago, I stopped by my house for a moment. I listened to my voicemail while I ate a very fast lunch (yogurt and potato chips if that qualifies). The first message on the machine was a dear friend leaving complicated directions to a place where I needed to hurry to after my important meeting.

I was already running late and it would have taken a while to transcribe everything he had said. He spoke rather fast and I would have had to playback certain parts to get it all straight. Well, luckily I was able to just print it up while I finished my lunch without any extra effort or wasted time. I made it to the meeting on time, literally. Not a minute early, but ON time.

I wouldn’t have made it if I didn’t have Vonage to transcribe for me. Perhaps this sounds a little over dramatic, but I was very behind schedule and it was a very important meeting!

It’s time to stack Vonage up next to another VoIP provider. Today, we will take a look at Comcast Digital Voice. This is Comcast’s version of Voice over Internet Protocol service. Let’s look at a few important factors.

Of course the first thing on everyone’s checklist is price. Comparing unlimited local and long distance calling plans, Vonage as always, is charging $24.99/month. Comcast digital Voice is $39.95/month! That’s almost 60% more expensive! Not only is it much more expensive, this rate is only available assuming you are already using Comcast cable internet. If not, it costs more every month!

I also found that the Comcast check out page is extremely difficult to understand. Actually buying the product is pretty difficult. Comcast comes with some pretty heavy sign up fees as well.

Vonage is a company that is dedicated specifically to offering VoIP service. Comcast generalizes in all cable products and uses VoIP as a tool to get people to sign up with their other services.

Vonage offers 20 premium features with their unlimited calling plan. This is 8 features more than Comcast offers. So Vonage knocks Comcast Digital Voice out of the water with features as well. One good idea that Comcast has implemented is a battery backup system in case of power outages.

Vonage for a much smaller price offers much better service and many more features than Comcast.

There is nothing tougher than having loved ones that live in other parts of the world and not being able to communicate with them. It’s even harder if the reason for the lack of communication is due to high international calling rates.

Vonage has the perfect solution! Vonage Unlimited International Calling Plans are just what they sound like. It’s a way to pay a flat monthly rate and be able to make as many international calls as you want! This works by adding a small monthly rate to the Residential Premium Unlimited Plan.

There are 5 different unlimited international calling plans. The best plan for your needs will depend on which part of the world you need to call the most. The plans are as follow:

* Basic World Plan
- unlimited calling to 17 various countries/cities world wide
- add $6/month
- $30.99/month total

* Enhanced World Plan
- unlimited calling to 60 various countries/cites world wide
- add $15/month
- $39.99/month total

* Call Europe Plan
- unlimited calling to 29 European counties/cities
- add $10/month
- $34.99/month total

* Call Asia Plan
- unlimited calling to 17 Asian counties/cities
- add $10/month
- $34.99/month total

* Call Mexico and Latin America Plan
- unlimited calling to 23 Latin counties/cities
- add $15/month
- $39.99/month total

Now it’s possible to call loves ones around the globe and not feel time restricted. Just another way that Vonage has made life a little more convenient and another reason they remain the #1 rated digital phone service.

When considering VoIP it is important to understand a few things about what it is and how it works. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. In short it is a way to make phone calls over the internet.

VoIP has many advantages over a regular land line phone service. One of the biggest advantages is that it is quite a bit cheaper.

When using VoIP it is extremely important to know a little bit about your internet service provider and the different types of internet connections they offer. Since VoIP transfers signals over the web, if an internet connection is slow, sound quality is drastically reduced.

The odds are that in the past you have heard at least one or two people complain about VoIP not sounding as good as a land line. This usually simply has to do with their internet service.

By using a high speed connection and a good VoIP service, it is easy to save hundreds of dollars a year on the phone bill.

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CallVantage is AT&T’s take on VoIP. There are many factors to consider when searching for a VoIP provider. Let’s take a look at a few important factors to consider while comparing AT&T CallVantage to Vonage.

Well, the price of AT&T CallVantage’s unlimited residential plan is the same as Vonage. Just $24.99 a month. This automatically makes it a battle of which service is better. Since the prices are the same for each service, we can cancel that category out of our comparison.

Features are definitely worth considering when we compare VoIP services. While CallVantage offers some great features, Vonage offers many more and at no extra cost. Now you can even use your Vonage service to send a fax over your PC.

Both services offer free calling to Canada and Puerto Rico, however, other international rates differ. Vonage offers free international calling to several other countries (ex. France and Italy). This is included in the regular unlimited plan. Other international rates are also extremely cheap (ex. China and Mexico city both 1 cent a minute).

These are just a few of the huge perks that Vonage offers over AT&T CallVantage. For the same price, why not get more? www.vonage-promotions.com.

A lot of people have fear of switching from a land line phone company to a VoIP provider because it seems like setting up a VoIP service in your house would be difficult.

Vonage has taken the time and effort to make that an easy task. It’s very simple. When you buy Vonage, everything that is required to set up the service comes in a box that will be mailed to your house. Everything is actually color coated, so the set up could probably be figured out by most people without having to put forth much effort.

However, Vonage has prepared a manual and even a CD that explains and shows diagrams of everything that has to be done. They give step by step walk throughs of how to successfully set up Vonage.

With little effort and no confusion, you could sever your connection with the phone company now, pay less, and not have to deal with surprisingly high long distance and international rates.

It is absolutely amazing how much technology and the web have advanced. It seems that everything has been digitized! People today are shifting more and more to digital media, keeping digital journals, and other records. Everything seems to have it’s place with the internet and phone service is no exception.

What really is better though? VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), or land lines? Many people still debate this. Let’s take a look . . .

The first category to consider would be price. Well, that’s pretty much a no brainer. VoIP is much cheaper. In fact, the more you use the phone, the better it is to use a VoIP provider. Especially for long distance calls. With a regular phone service, you are usually charged by the minute. Long distance rates can be extremely expensive as well. However, with Vonage for example, you can use the phone as much as you want and still pay only $24.99 a month. All calls within the United States and Canada are covered in this category. International rates are also often free, or very cheap.

Features is another category where VoIP providers come out on top. VoIP providers offer many feature that regular land line phone companies either charge for or don’t offer. Some of these include call block, contact lists, and now even the ability to send faxes though VoIP. All of these features make it easier to be organized and on top of things. For free . . . ? Why not?

Power outages. Land line phone services are not affected by just a regular power outage. Even when power is knocked out, a land line phone still works. VoIP however is affected by power outages. This is an issue that has been resolved by some VoIP providers however by providing a back up battery.

These are just a few categories in which to compare VoIP and land line phone services. Overall, VoIP is a better service in the fact that it offers the same quality with more features and a lower cost.

With more and more companies offering VoIP these days, the competition for subscribers has become more intense among VoIP providers. Some of the biggest competitors are of course Vonage, Comcast, and AT&T. These companies have been in the past and are still each others direct competition.

Vonage is different than most VoIP providers however. What makes Vonage different is that fact that they are a stand alone VoIP company, or in other words, they specialize solely in offering VoIP service. For example, Comcast is not only a VoIP provider, but a high speed internet provider, and a digital cable TV provider. VoIP is just a small part of what they do.

So the question that many experts are asking is if VoIP as a stand alone product can still generate enough revenue to keep a company functioning profitably. With the downfall of VoIP provider SunRocket, many experts began to feel that the answer was “no”. With all the competition out there from large corporations, VoIP as a stand alone product looked like a service with an expiration date.

Many people are changing their minds though after looking at Vonage’s performance in the fourth quarter of 2007 and first part of 2008. Even after all the 2007 opposition (lawsuits) Vonage is still increasing performance as a company that only offers VoIP. It looks like in the future people are going to continue to use the VoIP provider that offers the best rates and highest quality, stand alone VoIP or not.