> 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.
>

The fact remains that Vonage is operating in the red, so it would be
difficult for them to justify a rate reduction.

I use Verizon's VoIP service, VoiceWing, also $24.95 per month, and it is a
Godsend, considering that I routinely used to generate LD bills in excess of
$200/month, back in the days of AT&T Reach Out America (First hour was
$10.00, and additional hours were $7.80 each, billed in increments of one
minute after the first full hour).

These are, truly, great days for long distance customers. Who ever thought
that we could communicate for free via Instant Messenger, or for $15/year
via Skype, or $25.00 per month on VoIP lines? Who would have believed, back
in 1984, that AT&T long distance would one day be replaced by cheap
flat-rate substitutes? I, for one, am truly grateful. I remember in the
80s, when a call on Bell coast-to-coast was $.57 per minute during the
daytime.