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Phone.com, a leading business voip phone service provider,   has a brand-new promotion effective immediately featuring a FREE Vanity Toll-Free number for new customers (expires July 31st):

Get Your Free Vanity Toll-Free Number when you sign-up with Phone Services from Phone.com!

Use Coupon Code: FREEVANITY at Checkout

A vanity number is a toll free number that also corresponds to a word which is easy to remember. So you can advertise the word combination of your vanity number. Numbers are difficult to remember, but a word combination like 1-800-MyStore (not be a real number) is much easier to remember.

A vanity number is easier to brand and easier to market and used by businesses of sizes.

Yesterday (May 19th) the phonepower.com website underwent a site makeover with a Web 2.0 look and a green color scheme. The design change, though nice, is not the change that excited us the most. With the design change, PhonePower announced two new features for their new and existing voip customers, that we think is worth writing home about.

The new features are

Voicemail Auto-Delete

If you are PhonePower voip phone service user, you may have noticed that your voicemails remains in your voicemail box for ever and when it gets full, callers can’t leave a voicemail. So you needed to log on to your account and delete some voice mails manually to make room.
(more on how to access your PhonePower Voicemails from any where)

Well, that will be a thing of the past soon.

From May 31st you can use the new auto-delete function for voicemails. Once you turn it on, there’s no need to manually delete old voicemails. Simply set the number of days before deletion, and you’re done.

Free Softphone

Now you can take your Phone Power phone service service with you on your laptop, no matter where you go? As of May 19th, you can download the PhonePower softphone free from www.phonepower.com/account. The softphone software works on Windows pcs only as of now. Using a headset you can make or receive calls with your Phone Power number. And most importantly there is no additional cost involved.

The Lingo Smart Talk Plan offers unlimited calling in USA, Canada and also includes unlimited calls to 35 countries including India.

The plan costs $9.95/month for the first 3 months and $21.95/month afterwards. All start up fees like , set up fee, shipping fee and equipment(Voip Adapter) fee are being waived as a promotional offer. You can try in risk free for 30 days and requires a 1 year contract.

We have tested Lingo for its call quality in USA and Canada and to India and find it satisfactory.

You can get more details about the Lingo Smart talk plan and also the Lingo Hello America plan (which is an unlimited calling plan in US/Canada with no international calling) in our Lingo Review page.

Here is a recent email we received from one of our readers and we liked it, a lot. So we decided to publish it here in our blog. Do you have a similar story, do you use a voip phone service. Send us your voip story from our contact us page or just post a comment here for a chance to win $50 gift card from Amazon.com. (THIS PROMOTION HAS ENDED)

No purchase necessary. Just tell us your story and the best story will be awarded a $50 gift card by email. So be sure to use a correct email address while submitting your entry.

Here is the email from Mark, a long time voip user and a long time reader of voipdealsreview.org. Thanks Mark for sharing your voip experience with us.

Hello Voipdealsreview.org,

I have been a visitor to your site and a subscriber to your mailing list for a few years now. When I first found this site, I was using a regular phone company. The articles and reviews on your site prompted me to switch to voip and save some money.

With my wife’s permission , I signed up with SunRocket with the then ongoing 1 year free offer. The pricing was really cheap ($199 for 2 years for unlimited calling) and I was apprehensive about it all.

But I was pleasantly surprised when I started using SunRocket. There was a slight drop in voice quality.  But the price that I was paying for unlimited long distance calls in the US, the slight drop in voice quality was fine with me.

After having used Sunrocket  for almost 18 months with hardly any issues (I never had to call their customer service in the 18 months), SunRocket went out of business suddenly.

I had to make a quick decision to switch to another phone company ASAP. By that time I was hooked to voip for its cost saving potential and didn’t want to go back to a regular phone company.

I decided to go with Packet8. Packet8 was good but there were some shortcomings. The voice quality was not as good as Sunrocket. Then Paccket8 didn’t allow me to fax. Packet8 sells a fax service separately and does’t give their phone subscribers the ability to send faxes.

I stayed with Packet8 for a year until my contract was over. And then switched to PhonePower, again with a free 1 year offer for $199, thanks your site.

PhonePower offers everything that I needed for a price that’s better than Packet8′s. Here are some of the things that I like about PhonePower.

2nd Free Cloned Line – I work form home, and my wife is a stay-at-home mom. So we both need to use the phone during the day. PhonePower’s 2nd cloned line sets us free. Its like having two phone lines. I can make and receive calls while my wife is on a call.  And the best thing is the 2nd cloned line is absolutely free.

Faxing – PhonePower lets you send faxes over their voip line, unlike Packet8. I don’t send a lot of faxes but it helps when I need to send a fax occasionally.

Incoming Fax – Since I work from home, I get all my work related faxes online thorough an internet fax service that my company has provided. But with PhonePower you can receive faxes in your email through your regular phone#. When someone sends a fax to your phonepower number, the phonepwer system receives it and sends the fax to your email as a pdf attachment. Works for me when I need to receive a personal fax. And this service is also free.

60 Free Minutes of International Calls every month – Though I hardly use the free international minutes, I can imagine it will be useful for someone who have friends and families overseas.

Also I would like to thank you for this site and in a way having helped me to switch to voip.

(THIS PROMOTION HAS ENDED)

Ringcentral mobile recently made some changes without changing the cost of their service.

Each RingCentral Mobile plan now offers more minutes and more extensions, at the same old monthly rate.

The RingCentral mobile Pro plan now has 300 included minutes (up from 100), 10 virtual extensions (up from 5) and the additional minutes now cost 4.9¢/min (down from 6.7¢).

The RingCentral mobile Plus plan now has 1000 included minutes (up from 500), unlimited virtual extensions (up from 10) and the additional minutes now cost 4.4¢/min (down from 5.9¢).

The RingCentral mobile Power plan now has 1500 included minutes (up from 1000), unlimited virtual extensions (up from 10) and the additional minutes now cost 4.2¢/min (down from 4.8¢).

All these added benefits makes RingCentral extremely competitive compared to other virtual voip phone service providers. Here is a side by side comparison of small biz voip service providers.

If you call Philippines often, you can get 60 Free Minutes added to your balance as a welcome bonus when you sign up and  make the first deposit with Rebtel.

Calling rate to the Philippines with Rebtel is 10.9 ¢/min.

To get the free 60 minutes use the following code while signing up.

Voucher code: pinoy60
The offer is valid until July 31

We get many queries about how to call Israel for a fixed monthly cost.  Our answer always have been the Skype, though there are other options available.

Skype Unlimited Country Plan offers unlimited calls to land lines in Israel. Plus the plan also include unlimited calls in USA and Canada.

The Skype Unlimited Country Plan plan costs $5.95/Month. Don’t confuse this with the Skype Unlimited World Plan which costs $12.95/mo. If you live in the USA/Canada and the only country that you want to call is Israel, you don’t need the World plan and pay more.

Just a reminder that these subscription based Skype calls are pc to phone calls. Which mean the subscriber (that’s you) call from your PC to a land line phone.