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If you already have a high speed internet connection at home there is no reason why you shouldn’t save a bunch by switching to voip. In addition to cheaper home phone service, many voip phone service providers offer additional features for free that saves you extra. Here are the top 5 ways a voip service will save you money

1. Unlimited Calls for a flat fee

Most Voip providers offer unlimited US & Canada calling plans at a very affordable price compared to regular phone companies.

2. Free Faxing
   

Though not all voip providers offers faxing capability. But some do, like Phonepower. With PhonePower, you can send outbound faxes by hooking up a regular fax machine to the voip adapter. And that’s not all. PhonePower you can also receive inbound faxes with their fax enabled voicemail. And its free.


3. Free Additional Line

With some providers, you can have an additional virtual line for free. This is like having two phone numbers. The way it works, you hook up two phones to the voip adapter, and you can make and receive calls from both the phones at the same time. And this feature is also free.

4. Local Number Anywhere

If you have friends and family in City A and you live in City B, you can get a City A local number, which could also be your main phone number. That way all the calls your friends and family make to you, are local for them. So voip doesn’t only save you money, it can also save your friends and family money.

5. International Calls – Cheap or Free

There is a rush now by the voip providers to offer free or cheap international calls. Vonage offers free calls to over 40 countries. Phonepower offers 60 minutes of free calling to 80 countries. Lingo offers free calls to 100 countries.

Having a voip phone service doesn’t only saves money, it also brings freedom to travel.  If you travel or move to a different place, you move with your phone. Your phone is available upon plugging the voip adapter to a high speed internet connection. You can travel out of the country and still have your phone number with you.

Some voip providers like Vonage, Voip.com, Skype¹ offer soft phone service. A soft phone is a piece software you download to your PC/Laptop and use it to make an receive calls from a computer. No need to carry your voip adapter with you while traveling, if your provider offers a soft phone and you are carrying your laptop, one less thing to carry.

¹Skype offers only a soft phone service.

The D-Link DPH-50U Skype USB Phone Adapter is now available at $6.79 after a $10 mail in rebate at NewEgg.com.

Original Price: $16.79
Mail In Rebate: $10.00
Final Price: $6.79 (Exp 11/30/2008)
This is a time sensitive deal and will not be available for long.

We just started a micro voip news/blog post aggregator to follow major and reputed voip related blogs on the internet. The aggregator will update itself on a regular basis, multiple times a day and post the latest blog posts.

We are following a few blogs now, and we will keep adding to our list. If there is a favorite voip blog or news source you want us to follow, please let us know.

Per the recently released Keynote Systems VoIP quality report, Verizon Voicewing did pretty good as a voip service provider.

Verizon Voicewing came in second on the Voice Quality list and third on the reliability list. In both the lists AT&T Landline came in the top three position. We are assuming that AT&T that was featured in the list is the regular phone service provided by AT&T over land lines and not the AT&T Callvantage voip service.

If our assumption is correct, that will put Verizon Voicewing voip service, in the top two positions of both the audio quality list and the reliability list, which is pretty remarkable.

Keynote Systems placed automatic calls from corporate apartments using residential VoIP services and network services used by a typical residential customer to measure Voip quality and Voice quality. The study compared the relative performance of regular analog service versus VoIP services.

I just created a new squidoo lens for PhonePower. It was cool. Very easy to create and its fun. No programming, html skill needed. And its great way to connect with other squids.

Check it out. Please leave a comment if you like it. If you have related squidoo lenses, leave a note and we will visit your lense.

Ooma is new type of Voip Service significantly different from the other voip providers like Vonage, Lingo or Packet8. For lack of any better terms, lets call its Voip 2.0. The main difference for the consumer who doesn’t want to dabble in the technology behind is, it’s not a service that you pay for monthly or yearly. Rather what you buy is a Ooma hub and pay for teh device only once. Once set up the hub will let you make unlimited calls in the US for free .

That sounds too good to be true. So where is the catch….

There is no catch actually, except for the fact that the cost of the device is a bit high, at $349 after mail in rebate. But thta’s not why the calls are free. Ooma uses peer-to-peer Internet system popularized by file-sharing sites. So your device after connected to the internet is like a node (or a computer) in the Ooma network and your box can also carry another Ooma user’s call through it. But don’t worry, that is totally transparent to you and you will not hear, know or notice other calls being carried through your device. This is called peer-to-peer networking and is the main resaon why Ooma calls are and will be free.

That’s not all. The Ooma hub can be used with your regular phone line. If you want to keep a very basic land line for emergencies or back up, Ooma can work with it too. You keep a regular land line with a very basic service. And if or when Ooma service fails , the device will seamlessly switch to your regular line.
So where do you get the phone# from

If you choose to keep your land line and use Ooma with it, then your land line number provided by your carrier is your phone number. If you want to use Ooma as your primary carrier, then Ooma will provide with a phone number for free.
Fro the consumer point of view, you pay once for the device and then make unlimited calls in the Us and there is no monthly, yearly bills to pay.

There must be a risk somewhere, right! Yes, there is. You are paying around $350 hoping never to pay for any US calls again. But that is contingent upon the existence Ooma as a company. This is a bitter truth for stand alone voip companies. Many previous Sunrocket users have lived through it. So that’s your risk. You will need at least one and half year of service to recoup your initial cost. After that its all free for you. You will be envy of all in your neighboourhood as some one who makes free long distance calls.

Go to Ooma for more pricing details.

SunRocket, an innovative VoIP company with 200,000 paid subscribers has announced that it is closing for good.

SunRocket since its inception had been a good choice for consumers switching from regular phone companies to a voip provider. I personally have been a SunRocket user for more than a year. The service was good – I never had to call customer service. The price was excellent and I didn’t mind the cost savings SunRocket brought me.

But I think, with its regular 1 Year, 3 Months free offers and at $199/year price tag, Surocket was trying to make the deal too sweet at the cost of their bottom line.

Like all good things ‘SunRocket’ has come to an end. Adios.Â

The jury is out. We are pleased to announce that VoipDealsReview readers have voted Sunrocket as the best voip service provider. We have been receiving emails and reviews by users who subscribe to leading voip plans. Sunrocket voip users have the most positive comments and reviews about the sunrocket voip service, its call quality, call features and pricing.

Couple of things that went in Sunrocket’s favour, is its ongoing 3 Free months promotion which brings the cost per month to under $14. Plus free voip adapter and zero set up fee. Other voip providers charge a set up fee and also have a cancellation fee. But Sunrocket excelled because of its much advertised ‘no gotcha phone comapny’ policy. Sunrocket doesn’t have a cancellation fee if a user chooses to cancel in the middle of the 1 year term, which is a confidence booster for new users switching from regular phone companies to voip.

Read our detalied SunRocket Review. You may also submit your opinion about your voip provider in our newly launched voip forum.

NorthStateTrading.Com has compiled a listing of the 25 most interesting voip startups. Among the 25 featured at the top is SunRocket and the 2nd spot goes to Viatalk.

SunRocket
SunRocket has become the fastest-growing company to offer residential VoIP services by focusing on customer service, and trying to be a phone company that people actually like….

ViaTalk
Flat-rate phone service so cheap that you pay for it by the year instead of by the month – that’s ViaTalk’s angle, and it seems to be catching on…

(quoted from northstatetrading.com)

We have always tried to highlight Sunrocket and Viatalk as a cost effective and feature rich alternative to the regular phone service. Both the services sell their flagship plans at a yearly flat rate fee of $199. Both offer excellent features like call waiting, caller id, voicemail, e911 and more. And from time to time to win some new customers over, they offer even more cost cutting with free months offers.

For instance, currenlty SunRocket is offering 3 Free months and Viatalk is offering 1 Free Year for new sign ups. Now seems to be best time to grab those offers and switch to voip. And thousands are switching.

You can read the full list of top 25 most interesting starup here.