Originally Posted by cov-canuck

We've done the same. We were disgusted by Bell's policy of charging a huge deposit if you have no credit history with Bell themselves, and since we rarely make outgoing calls it made sense to get Vonage. It's also free calls within Canada, to the US and to the UK, so when I do get the urge to speak to my family somewhere in whatever country they happen to be in, it doesn't cost me anything. OH has a weekly phone call to his mum (her request, not his), but she can't seem to grasp that it's free. She'll say 'let me ring you back', calls the 0121 number and pays for a local call instead of our free one.

We started with Skype, it was OK, but where we stayed for the first few months (my brother's guest room) we had a flaky net connection and my brother had a habit of unplugging our wireless router when he felt like it, usually mid-way through a call.

Originally Posted by dbd33

My parents-in-common-law have Vonage. It's usable but at the level of, say, Bell Mobility; about a third of the calls result in one party being able to hear the other but not the other way around. "I'm sorry I'm using Vonage" will soon be as common a phrase as "I'm sorry, I'm on a cell". Fortunately, with Vonage, you don't lose the call when the house goes under a bridge or passes a hill.

Originally Posted by dozy_muppet03

Theres a bandwidth feature that can help with that if you have them logon to their account online.


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John