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Features, price, and voice quality...
(old news - 05:09PM Monday Jul 19 2004)
tags: competition · VoIP
Users in our VoIP forum dissect this Tech News World/Washington Post article that compares and contrasts several of the larger VoIP providers. According to the comparison, "AT&T's call quality far surpassed that of Vonage," though it was "tougher to set up" and took longer to configure. Of course tastes and opinions vary, and users looking for a VoIP provider can check out our own user submitted VoIP reviews.

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neftv

join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA

Alot of players in this field

Seems like the big boys will always get the free press. I like my VoIP it's been good up to now. A lot of features and low international rates and monthly reasonable. Landline eat dust.
permalink · 2004-07-19 17:29:17 · Reply to this
COOL_JAY

join:2002-11-09
Wayne, NJ

Re: Alot of players in this field

yeah same here!!!:D
permalink · 2004-07-19 17:36:40 · Reply to this

LordMalak

join:2003-07-02
Brazil

 As usual, it always comes down to $$$. The more money you have, the more advertising can you do, which brings in the most customers.

Unfortunately, quality is only second. It's always been this way, from cars to music. VoIP will be no different. Expect the Bells and AT&T to be the top dogs, no matter how much you may hate them.
permalink · 2004-07-19 18:31:34 · Reply to this
frogli

join:2003-10-12
Yaphank, NY

Re: Alot of players in this field

I LOVE MY VONAGE GREAT SERVICE
permalink · 2004-07-19 18:40:03 · Reply to this

jersey_born

join:2002-01-02
Hawthorne, NJ

 I have both Vonage and AT&T Call Vantage... both have great phone quality but at a different cost. Vonage uses a Motorola box that works either as the gateway for your computer network or as a device behind a router/firewall. AT&T uses a D-Link device that "requires" to be directly connected to your modem. Recently I had a bandwidth problem with AT&T that forced me to move it to a dedicated IP on my T-1. Seems that when I was using the phone service my OptOnline bandwidth was what I expected. But once I hung up the call, I lost 80% of my bandwidth and under a test of AOL 9.0 while downloading a huge video file, it reset the VoIP Gateway completely... tier 2 tech support is still looking into it at last check and I suspect it has to do with the hardware not that I think the D-Link box is that bad... I find AT&Ts feature set to be right up there with the rest of them and they were able to port over my former Verizon phone number which to me was an added plus.
permalink · 2004-07-20 09:49:33 · Print · Reply to this

WhyADuck
Premium
join:2003-03-05

Re: Alot of players in this field

I really, really dislike the idea of a box that MUST be directly connected to a modem. What if you are in some sort of shared living situation and your only access point is behind a router? What if you want to take your box to work and plug it into the network connection at your desk? What if you want two or more VoIP lines, perhaps from competing VoIP providers (so you have redundancy if one goes down)? I can probably think of a couple dozen reasons why a requirement that the VoIP device be connected directly to the modem is a very bad thing. It would be as if hard drive manufacturers all required that their hard drives be the first device on the first IDE cable in any computer - that would be okay until you wanted to add a second hard drive, then you would curse whoever came up with that scheme.

Of course, I'm not sure why anyone would want CallVantage anyway, when it is nearly the most expensive VoIP provider out there. If it's features you want, VoicePulse has them at a much lower monthly rate, and there are quite a few other companies that also offer a better deal than CallVantage on the monthly rate.
permalink · 2004-07-20 11:12:28 · Print · Reply to this
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