Todd Allcock wrote:

> Agreed. Vonage got in the game early, and seems to think their
> continuous advertising will convince people it's a good deal. Again,
> it's their reliance on ignorance- people think $25 is a good deal vs.
> their landline provider, and it probably is, but competing VoIPs- even
> the mainstream ones like Sunrocket, offer better rates.

If they make a lot of long distance calls, AND they have broadband cable
internet, AND they need to make a lot of peak time calls that they can't
use N&W or MTM on their cell phone for, then $25 may be better than
their landline. Personally, I'd have to make three hours of long
distance calls per month before Vonage would be worthwhile, not counting
the fact that cable broadband would cost me an extra $25 per month over
DSL, which would pay for more than another twenty hours of long distance.

People get carried away with "unlimited" because they are unaware of how
cheap long distance calling actually is if they sign up for a good
service such as TalkLoop. They're doing their calculations using LD
rates from AT&T or other high cost LD provider. They might also benefit
from switching to a wireless carrier like Sprint that has 7 p.m. nights
and weekends, versus 9 p.m. of the other carriers.