I initially became a Vonage VOIP system user because I was seeking for ways to reduce my phone costs I originally considered the Magic Jack product, but found it to be inappropriate for my needs. While Skype is popular, I decided I would give Vonage a try due to it’s low cost as well as some of it’s features that emulated my previous AT&T provider regarding call forwarding, call waiting, voice messaging, etc. I’m very happy with the elimination of long distance charges, and pennies for overseas calls.
It does have some glitches, though, due to how it uses the internet as i will point out in this voip review. Living with other family members, we have multiple phones. If someone picks up in the kitchen and asks me to pick up in my bedroom, we’ll get a loud piercing sound sometimes. This is painful to the ear. Sometimes you can hear activity in the voip adapter that might be described as “white noise” in the background that is annoying when trying to carry on a conversation.
The last concern is if there is an outage with the Internet. You lose the phone completely when that happens. If I did not have a cell phone, I most likely would NOT use a VOIP device as I would not want to get caught in an emergency only to have the phone inactive due to lack of Internet access.
I consider this “flaw” insignificant in light of how VOIP adds a few other nice perks like sending me an email for missed calls and giving me website reports as well as control over the status of my phone (like phone forwarding if I need it ). I like using a website for controlling my device versus memorizing numeric codes to activate or deactivate features.
All in all, if you are looking for a significant savings with confidence that VOIP is 95% clean and stable, then I highly recommend that you give this some serious consideration.
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