FACE IT IF YOU DONT LIKE VONAGE STOP BANGING ON ABOUT IT MERVART AND FIND
SOMETHING APPROPRIATE T YOUR NEEDS
"r_mervart" <r_mervart@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote in message
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> <Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:14:47 GMT, "r_mervart"
>> <r_mervart@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> >If it is a fixed non-reducible monthly charge then it is what would
> normally
>> >be understood as a rental whether it includes certain types of call
> without
>> >further charge or not.
>> No you are wrong if I took what you are saying above to be correct
>> then our city transport operators are charging bus rental when they
>> say I can travel anywhere in the city at any time of the day or night
>> for a fixed monthly fee.
>> Now I have a choice I can either buy the journeys in bulk at a very
>> much reduced rate or I can pay per journey and it is exactly the same
>> with Vonage and many other phone companies with the exception of BT
>> who clearly state their top package includes line RENTAL and ALL
>> calls. You cannot rent a line from Vonage has they have no lines to
>> rent .
>>
> Mobile operators do not have lines to rent but charge a line rental or
> boast
> about not charging the line rental (e.g. Virgin, EasyMobile) - which
> implies
> they could do if they decided to. I do not want to get hang up on a
> meaning
> of the word rental but to me there is a question of the payment of either
> 1) a fixed irreducible monthly fee or
> 2) no monthly fee at all and paying only for calls (pay as you go).
>
> I am not saying what and who is better but as far as I understand it I do
> not have that second option with Vonage. In other words, taking your
> example, I do not have that option paying for just one bus journey. I
> just
> want to be clear about it.
> Thanks
> Roman
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