Vonage

I am cancelling my NTL Line for which I pay 14.50 for all inclusive calls.

And am considering Vonage. Which I believe only costs 9.99/month with free
equipment. can anyone tell me if vonage will allow me to choose my own
number from a small range. I would like a good number that is identical to
my home number or with good digits.

Sidkney

"SidKnee" <yza82REMOVE@SPAMTRAPukgateway.net> wrote in message
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>I am cancelling my NTL Line for which I pay 14.50 for all inclusive calls.
>
> And am considering Vonage. Which I believe only costs 9.99/month with
> free
> equipment. can anyone tell me if vonage will allow me to choose my own
> number from a small range. I would like a good number that is identical
> to
> my home number or with good digits.
>
> Sidkney
>
You can choose an area code but not the actual number (IIRC). Bear in mind
you will need a phone (can be a mobile) to divert calls to if your network
is down.

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"SidKnee" <yza82REMOVE@SPAMTRAPukgateway.net> wrote in message
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> I am cancelling my NTL Line for which I pay 14.50 for all inclusive calls.
>
> And am considering Vonage. Which I believe only costs 9.99/month with
free
> equipment. can anyone tell me if vonage will allow me to choose my own
> number from a small range. I would like a good number that is identical
to
> my home number or with good digits.

Bear in mind if they did offer this, all the 'good' numbers will have gone.
The fact is _everyone_ wants a good number and there aren't that many to go
around.

Regards
Andrew

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"John Blessing" < wrote ). Bear in mind
> you will need a phone (can be a mobile) to divert calls to if your network
> is down.
>
Has anyone been successful in choosing their own number rather than only th
area code?

Can you divert your calls to a mobile? Is there a charge for this?

Sidknee

SidKnee <yza82REMOVE@SPAMTRAPukgateway.net> wrote:
[...]
> Has anyone been successful in choosing their own number rather than
> only th area code?

Not quite, but I did manage to score x0y0x0 for free from Sipgate.

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"Peter" <abuse@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk> wrote
did manage to score x0y0x0 for free from Sipgate.
>

would sipgate work with vonage or can you tune vonage to simutaneously work
with sipgate?

Sidknee

On 04 Oct 2005 12:45:55 GMT, abuse@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk (Peter)
scrawled:

>SidKnee <yza82REMOVE@SPAMTRAPukgateway.net> wrote:
>[...]
>> Has anyone been successful in choosing their own number rather than
>> only th area code?
>
>Not quite, but I did manage to score x0y0x0 for free from Sipgate.

I got 8x8x8y as a lucky dip number. Might have to use that for
business calls.
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SidKnee wrote:
> "John Blessing" < wrote ). Bear in mind
>
>>you will need a phone (can be a mobile) to divert calls to if your network
>>is down.
>>
>
> Has anyone been successful in choosing their own number rather than only th
> area code?

We allow customers to choose their number.

cheers
peter


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"Peter Gradwell" <peter@gradwell.com> wrote > We allow customers to choose
their number.
>
> cheers
> peter
>
does your net work with vonage simultaneously?

Sidknee

Peter Gradwell wrote:
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>
> We allow customers to choose their number.
>
> cheers
> peter
>
>
For a payment, or have I misunderstood the ordering process?

"SidKnee" <yza82REMOVE@SPAMTRAPukgateway.net> wrote in message
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>
> "John Blessing" < wrote ). Bear in mind
>> you will need a phone (can be a mobile) to divert calls to if your
>> network is down.
>>
> Has anyone been successful in choosing their own number rather than only
> th area code?
>
> Can you divert your calls to a mobile? Is there a charge for this?
>


Yes. Yes, - you pay the Vonage mobile rate for the leg from your vonage
number to the mobile.

One great feature of vonage is simulring - it rings several numbers and you
can pick up on any of them.

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John Blessing

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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:09:08 +0100, Peter Gradwell
<peter@gradwell.com> wrote:

>We allow customers to choose their number.

do you port in from NTL ?

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John Blessing wrote:

"You can choose an area code but not the actual number (IIRC). Bear in
mind
you will need a phone (can be a mobile) to divert calls to if your
network
is down."

When I signed up, by chance I received "(023) 9200 XY00" and "(023)
9200 XY01". My guess is that I was the first Vonage customer to pick
Portsmouth for my area code.

Adrian.

I have had a quick play with Freetalk today.

Too early to comment on Audio but Vonage ought to be better on the highest
bandwidth setting (90kps) unless they are using some inefficient CODEC?

Have you noticed the CLI is in the full international format both incoming
and outgoing. If they want to make the service easy and seamless for your
average BT/NTL telephone user to migrate to then international formatted CLI
for UK local and national calls is going to confuse the hell out of them.
Some phones might also have a problem with recognising this.

Other then that very easy to setup.

Web interface and online management is a little amateurish compared to
Vonage.

Regards,

Paul


<Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 5 Oct 2005 15:54:43 -0700, "Adrian Auer-Hudson"
> <adrian_h_hudson@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>When I signed up, by chance I received "(023) 9200 XY00" and "(023)
>>9200 XY01". My guess is that I was the first Vonage customer to pick
>>Portsmouth for my area code.
> Well having finally got Freetalk working yesterday after three trips
> to my local Currys store to swap the supplied ata's two where faulty
> and Freetalk support know there are many of these boxes faulty ,I am
> thinking the audio quality of Freetalk is slightly better than Vonage.
> The Manuel supplied is neither use or ornament it only tells you where
> the cables go no mention of it having to be configured and no mention
> of how to get into the damn thing to configure it but I feel having
> used it all day today that it is an overall better option than Vonage
> especially regards price and audio .
>