 Review by signmeuptoo 
UPDATED: 29 days ago
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 "Great support, especially considering principle people frequest DSLR"
 "Optional Discount Gray line (cheapest way) doesn't *always* work, but premium is very competitive, others don't give a choice!"
 "I have been using F9 for a few weeks with the paygo option. For now, no monthly fee makes it even better"
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I just yesterday received my "ATA" box, a Linksys PAP2T-NA. The nice people at F9 configured it for me so I didn't have to do anything more than just plug it in a play, if you will.
The People with F9 are very conscientious and the leadership will help when they can even here at DSLR. I will return here with a deeper review after I have put more money into the payg account, or after I sign up for one of the plans, which is optional.
Now consider:
Right before ordering the ATA from Future Nine and buying just a few minutes to start with, I cancled my Vonage account a week or so ahead of the cut off date. Vonage's service to The Philippines was horrible, either the connection had many drop outs per minute, or the call wouldn't even go through. Sure, the price is good: 13 cents to call my family in Cebu, but what good is any price if you can't make a manageable call? Vonage tried to blame my ISP (AT&T), and indeed, it is true that the internet service I get from AT&T is so so, but if it was the fault with my ISP, why am I able to get good calls through with Future Nine!
After I manage to afford buying a more substatial amount of minutes and I've used F9 for a few months I will report back.
UPDATE: Anyone who complains about this provider, they must be crazy. F9 lets you choose between gray, white, and Premium, so if one doesn't go through, for a tiny bit more money you get white or even premium. This is fantastic because it lets you choose and saves having to contact them for support, because if Gray won't work (and for many it does, I can call my wife's cellphone using gray sometimes, she is in the Philippines) then you just choose white or premium.
Using premium, which is competitively priced, my calls to my girl work very well, I can be watching internet streaming TV or torrents and still have the calls sound and work well at the same time, it's amazing! With Vonage calls never went through, I didn't have an option to try using a white or premium line, I had the huge monthly fee with Vonage, which made it no sense at all to keep the service since I have to keep my POTS provider since I get DSL from them and can't afford to go through the complex hassle of canceling my POTS line and then getting naked DSL, and it would only raise the rate that I pay for DSL with ATT.
Because of the fact that I can use F9 without a huge monthly fee, and keep F9 for what *I* most need it for (calling The Philippines), it's a total no brainer that, along with how good the service is and how dedicated and kind the people who run the business are, I don't think I could find a better provider.
I ordered a Linksys ATA from F9 and it shipped promptly, all set up and ready to go and it is a PAP2T-NA that seems to be a very good device. I even got a new one for cheap! Where else can you order a state of the art consumer class ATA for cheap, and fast shipping, all set up for the VOIP provider for a price very competitive to what's on eBay?
Order and install were EASY.
I think Nitzan and company are great folks. I am looking forward to a new webpage setup, that is the only thing I'd like to see more amped up. The webpage, the user console works, it's just not fancy. All the information you need, or at least most of it, is right there on the web console.
The bottom line?
1: Courteous, cary people.
2: Fast support and service.
3: Competitive prices.
4: No huge monthly fee, in fact, no montly fee at all unless you want a phone number and a plan for USA calling.
5: The fabulous option of making calls via either Gray, White, or Premium lines.
6: Flexible service: Call card, call back, softphone, and ATA access.
7: Excellent call quality, even on a non competitive, lower bandwidth DSL provider and even while using the DSL for other things at the same time!!!
8: Price competitive ATA supplier that will pre configure the device for you then ship it!
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