Vonage Promotions Blog

The R&D, or research and development, department is one of the most important departments in most companies. Especially in an competitive industry that has shifting needs.The research and development department is in charge of coming up with product innovations and improvements. They make sure that the product is able to meet all of the customer’s expectations.

Over the years Vonage has shown that keeping ahead of all the other VoIP companies with call quality and unique features is a top priority. That is why this week they have announced the appointment of Amichay Oren as the new Vice President of Research and Development. CEO Mark Lefar is enthusiastic about this appointment given Oren’s past experience and accomplishments. Oren has experience in mobile application development as well as voice over internet protocol phone, so he seems to be the right kind of guy for the job.

Although Vonage has already created more features that I ever could have though of and given them to customers for free, their attention to continuing development shows that they are not going to be changing their policy of consistent pr oduct improvement anytime in the near future. I’m excited to see what kind of new products and improvements will be coming from Vonage over the next few years with a bright new mind at the table.

My wife and I have been using cell phones as our primary method of communication for a while now. I’ve been wanting to switch over to Vonage and ditch the cell phones, but I’ve unfortunately been unable to due to being involved in many group projects throughout school. I needed to have a phone on me at all times.

Well now that school is out, the need to always have a phone is gone. So I started wondering how much money we could save in the next 12 months if we got rid of our cell phones and just used Vonage. I mean, people say all the time how much money Vonage can save you, so I figured it was worth looking at an example. You can follow these steps if you want to see how much money you could save by using Vonage instead of another phone service.

Our current cell phone service costs $121 a month. Ouch! To cancel the contract early, there’s a $100 fee, so right out front we’d be out $100. So now we’re at -$100.

Next we’ll find out how much money we’d save every month by using Vonage. So the cost of the cell phones $121 minus the cost of Vonage $25 is a savings of $96/month.

We take $96 and multiply it by 12 months and we get $1152.

The last step is to subtract the $100 cancellation fee from the $1152 of savings for a grand total savings of $1052 over the next 12 months.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love having a cell phone, it’s very nice. It was a need for us, but now it’s just a luxury. I like it, but I don’t like it $1052 a year! In this economy, that’s just too much to pay for a luxury. We could take that money and go on a cruise or buy a new 50″ HDTV! Maybe you can’t make it without a cell phone, but you can definitely get rid of your local phone company and switch to Vonage. Just do the simple math and see how much you could save!

We’ve been using Vonage World for awhile now and man, isn’t it great. It’s been reliable, the call clarity has been excellent, and best of all, it’s so affordable that paying the bill every month is near pleasurable. I’ve only had one problem personally so far. The problem is that I’m not always at home, sometimes I need to make an international call on the run. Well, Vonage has just come out with Vonage World Mobile which is exactly what it sounds like. It’s Vonage World, for your mobile phone!

Let’s get some of the basic facts and concerns out of the way. It’s $24.99 a month and you also get to save $10 a month on your Vonage World home plan if you are using both. Using the mobile plan you can call all the same countries for free that you can with the home plan and get great rates on calling countries that aren’t free yet.

Vonage World works with Blackberry, iPhones, iPod  Touch, and Android OS phones. It will work with your current mobile plan. Vonage World is a mobile app. You use it by dialing directly without having to enter pins or other special prefixes.

Even being able to use an iPod Touch as a phone is especially neat. To use with an iPod Touch, you must be connected to wifi. You can also use the iPhone over wifi to make Vonage calls without using minutes. Blackberry and Andriod OS phones automatically recognize when you are making an international calls and route the call through the Vonage network.

This new service will certainly be useful for a variety of people, but especially for those who travel often, or find themselves constantly behind the wheel.