{"id":634,"date":"2003-11-20T02:38:19","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2003-11-20T02:38:19","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T07:38:19","slug":"vonage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/vonage\/","title":{"rendered":"Vonage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I bit the bullet and signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vonage.com\/learn_tour.php?refer_id=41pa2292947439p3pa3p\" target=\"_blank\">Vonage.<\/a>  Basically Vonage provides telephone service over your internet connection &#8211; so you disconnect your local phone service and replace it with Vonage.  I&#8217;ve been making tons of long distance calls as of late, so I decided that this was the cheapest way to get unlimited LD.  From the people I&#8217;ve spoken too, and the things I&#8217;ve read the quality is great and the clarity is often better than standard phone service.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in signing up too, here&#8217;s a link to use to <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.vonage.com\/vonage-subscribe\/subscribe\/Premium.do?refer_id=41pa2292947439p3pa3p\" target=\"_blank\">get your 2nd month for FREE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting Vonage facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modems and Faxing works &#8211; This not true for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8x8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">8&#215;8 <\/a>or other competitors.\n<li>911 works &#8211; Also not true for the other providers\n<li>Failover &#8211; If your internet connection is down, or the power is out it&#8217;ll forward to whatever phone you want, includiing your cellular phone.\n<li>Multiple Numbers &#8211; you can have as many numbers in whatever area codes you want&#8230; so if you have family in a different state they can call you via a local number\n<li>Works over dial-up &#8211; evidentally the codec they use is so tight that you can even do it over a 28.8k modem. Wow.\n<li>Number Portability &#8211; you can move your existing phone number to Vonage\n<li>Cheap &#8211; Unlimited in and outbound calls for only $35, and that includes all you can eat long distance to boot.<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally the $35\/month plan also throws in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FREE Call Waiting\n<li>FREE Voicemail\n<li>FREE Call Forwarding\n<li>FREE Repeat Dialing\n<li>FREE Call Transfer\n<li>FREE Caller ID\n<li>FREE Caller ID Block <\/ul>\n<p>My VoIP box should be here next week.  I hope things go well &#8211; I&#8217;ll report how things go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I bit the bullet and signed up for Vonage. Basically Vonage provides telephone service over your internet connection &#8211; so you disconnect your local phone service and replace it with Vonage. I&#8217;ve been making tons of long distance calls as of late, so I decided that this was the cheapest way to get unlimited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}