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There are many benefits that come from using a Vonage Small Business Plan as your small business’ phone service. The first of course is price. Having to make long distance calls everyday for your business’ needs can add up extremely fast. With Vonage, long distance doesn’t exist. Calls can be made anywhere in the US, Canada, or Puerto Rico.

Vonage also offers very low international rates. Some countries even have free international rates! Recently, Vonage rolled out unlimited international calling plans so you don’t even have to worry about paying international rates.

Maybe one of the best reasons to use Vonage is that if you move, you can keep the same number. Even if you don’t stay local, you can still maintain the same number all of your clients already have and it will still be local to those to whom it was already local. It is also very easy to add extra lines. These are just a few reasons why Vonage’s Small Business Plans are the perfect solution to your business’ communication needs.

Vonage’s coverage area is very large. Larger than most other VoIP companies. Many people have voiced the fact that when looking for a VoIP provider, Vonage is the only one available where they live. Fortunately it’s also the most affordable.

They also offer a wider variety of phone numbers, and unlike other VoIP providers, offer to let you keep your old number. With numbers available in most area codes, you can have a local line almost anywhere in the US or Canada.

This also means that if you have to move, Vonage will most likely be available at your new house. This is another extremely important factor to consider when initially signing up with a VoIP provider. Wherever you go, Vonage will be there to help you save money.

Many people have decided to ditch their land lines and survive solely on their cell phones. In a highly mobile world, it is often not worth it to pay the expensive fee for a land line. But is it really possible to survive with just a cell phone? That would depend on your general situation, but overall, I would say it’s not.

This is why. My cell phone plan costs about $55 a month. That’s for 450 minutes, but what happens if I go over those 450 minutes? I pay $.45 per extra minute. I’m sorry, sometimes I need to use the phone more than 15 minutes a day. And sometimes way more than 450 minutes a month.

The most feasible solution is a good VoIP service. Vonage offers unlimited calling for only $24.99 a month. Since an extra 60 mintues on my cell phone plan a month is more than $24.99, it is more than worth it to have a Vonage line. It’s a good idea for students, professionals, or especially parents who have kids that have a hard time understanding they can’t chat on their cell phone all they want (usually until 9pm at least).

No one likes to be governed by their cell phone plan and certainly everyone hates having to cut conversations short at the end of the month because they’re almost out of minutes. Now you can have unlimited minutes with Vonage.

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.

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.

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.

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.