Goodbye Sbc and Overpriced Phone Bills

We recently dropped SBC and At&t for Vonage which offers Voice Over IP. So far I am happy with the change. Art and I had been looking into this option for a while and noticed that Vonage nor At&t Callvantage was available in our area. Well that changed last month. We signed up for Vonage at the end of December and also ported our phone number as well. I faxed the paperwork to Vonage on Dec 31. We received our phone adapter the middle of last week and Art hooked it up last Friday night. The same day he hooked it up I received an email that said our number transfer would be complete on Monday the 10th of January. I was told that it takes 20 days to transfer the number. It took 11 days for us. It happened very quickly. What I really like about it is that I know have unlimited local and long distance with most of the features that I had with SBC for under $30 a month. I had waited to see how I liked it before I posted and so far I am happy. The one feature that I miss from SBC is the privacy manager which if I did not want to take a call I could deny the call if I was at home. I am hoping that Vonage will eventually add that feature. I guess for now I will just let what I suspect to be a telemarketer calling call go into my voicemail. The advantages for us just outweighed the disadvantages of changing. The only thing is if you do not have broadband or access to broadband in your area you cannot get VOIP. Some time last summer we heard that our cable company was going to bundle phone service with its cable and Internet service but , the drawback is our cable company was not offering a long distance package and it was more expensive. I will keep you posted on how it is going later.

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