Archivis
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Earth | Simple question
What's the difference between going through Earthlink and signing up with Vonage Directly?
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murdok6100
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join:2002-06-20 | Precisely, what kind of "DEAL" are EL folks getting?
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Karl Bode
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Good question. Comparing the two:
»www.vonage.com/
»www.unlimitedvoice.com/
The only difference I see is that Vonage offers more plans....I would be curious to see the back end of this agreement. |
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Archivis
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| The only thing I see is that Earthlink is doing more advertising for this product then Vonage did. It looks like they stripped the whole Vonage name out of the whole deal to make it look like its really through Earthlink. Usually when Earthlink resells a service, there's at least a dollar or two in savings.
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N10Cities
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I believe you have to have a BB connection in place for the service to work. Vonage doesn't sell BB access, just piggybacks on existing BB service. |
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Archivis
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| i guess thats true. But whats to keep me from signing up for Earthlink and then Vonage... or another ISP and then Vonage?
What if im deciding between earthlink and another ISP? Same price, same speeds, and I'm also looking to get Vonage service. If it were a buck or two cheaper going through earthlink, i'd probably get it.
My question is... whats the incentive?
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LameDuck5
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| You are better off signing thru Vonage directly as you can get atleat 39.99 referral credit if you get yourself referred by someone who is an existing Vonage customer.
There are MANY existoing Vonage customers who are posting on various VOIP borads in the hope they will get a referral.. so search the VOIP forum and you will find many such folks. |
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mballard
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Seems to me that the benefit isn't directly for the consumers as it is EarthLink and Vonage, the average consumer won't know about Vonage, and will be leery of them, but does know the EarthLink name, and is more likely to sign up with them. It provides a significant potential user base increase that can not be easily gotten otherwise. |
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Archivis
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Earth | Thats what I thought. I guess they're just paying for a name. I think Earthlink would have advertised this sub-product more then Vonage advertised their own product
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