[Asterisk-Users] Vonage and Asterisk integration

[Michael Graves]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:37:01 -0500, Brian Capouch wrote:

>Jay Milk wrote:
>> Like I said, they just seem to be lazy and/or badly organized.  If they
>> can do LNP, why can't they change a "hardline" into a "softphone", break
>> one number out onto a different ATA, etc?  I basically laid it out for
>> them, saying "If you can't move my 2nd line from this ATA to a new ATA,
>> then I'll need to cancel that line"... I no longer have that line.  Not
>> being able to something this simple cost them over $500/year from me...
>> I wonder how many other Vonage users will drop them because of such
>> things.
>> 
>> 
>
>Vonage thinks that by being first, and by having the largest ITSP 
>advertising budget (so far) that they can pretty much dictate things to 
>their customers.
>
>Down the line they will be paying highly for this.  I have drastically 
>scaled back my use of their service, in part because nufone is very 
>satisfactory and much cheaper, and in part because of their arrogance 
>wrt their customers.
>
>B.

I cancelled my Vonage service, which I'd had for over a year, when I
started using Asterisk. It simply didn't make sense to me to take a
VoIP service into an ATA device, then back into * via an FXO. I've used
VoicePulse Connect and Clearpath since January. VPC is easier to dela
with online. Clearpath is more reliable and provides me an 800 number.
Both offer per minute billing instead of the flat rate model that
Vonage offers.

Michael

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