Voip Deals Blog

Vonage Offers a premium voip plan called Vonage Pro to cater to the road warriors, people on the go. The Vonage Pro plan offers all the features that come with the Vonage Premium Unlimited residential plan plus the following added features.

1. Vonage Companion which is soft phone application one can run on a pc or laptop to make and receive calls.
2. 25 Visual Voice mails
3. 25 free 411 calls

The cost is $34.99/month which is 10 dollars more per month than the  Vonage Premium Unlimited residential plan. Whether the extra cost ($10) is justifiable for the three extra features, of which the soft phone feature may be the only feature worth paying for. The Vonage Companion soft phone does offer some advantages. You carry your phone with you.  You can make and receive calls from any where you can connect to the internet.

From a price perspective, let’s compare Vonage Companion with Skype, a very popular soft phone service. With Skype to make unlimited calls in the US you will need the Skype Out which costs $2.95/month. To receive calls you will need a Skype online number which costs $30/year (when combined with Skype Out) or around $2.50/month. Together it will cost you $5.45/month, slightly less that the $10 extra that Vonage Pro Plan cost. But with Vonage, you have one number. With Vonage at home and Skype when on the road, you have to juggle two phone numbers.

Vonage, reacted to the recent jury verdict by lowering international rates to several countries to 1¢/min for both new and existing customers.

The penny-a-minute rate is available to new and existing Vonage U.S. customers who call Argentina, Australia, China, Mexico, Singapore, Israel, Poland, and Sweden.

This is in addition to its already free international calling rates to France, Italy, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Spain for subscribers who have purchased Vonage Residential and Small Business Premium Unlimited Plans.

Now the Best Part:

One of our VOIP Forum readers has posted a Vonage link that offers 2 FREE months of service. The standard offer at the home page of Vonage.com is 1 Free month for new customers. But this special link gives you 2 Free months.

Click here to get the 2 Free Months Deal at Vonage.

Vonage Holdings, provider of voip phone solutions reported on Tuesday to have reached 2 million subscriber mark, according to Reuters. Â

This is the first uplifting news coming from Vonage after its recent IPO. Vonage shares have lost half their value since it went public in May.

But Vonage hitting 2 million mark is good news both for the company, its competitors and its customers. Competitors will be encouraged to see growing voip acceptance as a good sign for their business. Vonage consumers will see improved quality as the consumer base matures and reaches a crtical mass.

Read Vonage Broadband reviews and promotions. Â

Jeffrey Citron, the chairman of Vonage has bought another $1.3 million worth of vonage stock. This comes after the company’s May initial public offering. Jeffrey Citron, the founder, chairman, and chief strategist of Vonage. This make him a 33% stakeholder in the company.

Citron served as chairman and CEO from January 2001 till February 2006, when he resigned from the latter post.

Read vonage reviews.

Pali research analyst Richard Greenfield downgraded Vonage stock from `neutral’ to ‘sell’ after he discovered Vonage is offering existing customers a discount rate of $19.99 a month to stop them from switching carriers. Vonage charges new customers $24.99 a month.

Is that really such a bad thing in a market economy where competetion thrives and companies go to great lengths to retain customers. Is that really a sign that the comapny is doing badly.

How many times have you called Sprint or American Express to cancel a service to be given a free offer like a free newer cell phone or a free year of service. Retaining an existing customer is much cheaper for any company than getting a new customer.

Vonage lowering the monthly rate for customers who want to switch, in my opinion – just this one single marketing strategy – is not such a bad reflection on the company. And eventually Vonage may gain from this IF they act on the reasons why customers want to switch. May be its the call quality or may be its their customer service.

But anyway I wouldn’t sell my American Express stock just because they offered me a free one year on my Skymiles card, neither would I sell Vonage because they offered to lower my monthly rate. I would rather take the offers. BTW I don’t own any of the above two stocks.