Thursday, October 15, 2009

“Woo-Hoo...Woo-Hoo-Hoo...”

Good morning! I have something that I want to share with you but I hope you don't take it the wrong way. I am not trying to sell you anything.

We are really trying to cut expenses around here so in reviewing our bills we found that we were paying over $160 for our 2 phone lines with MCI (one home, one business). I decided to take the leap and sign our home phone up for VOIP (voice over Internet protocol). I did a lot of research first and went with the company that had the best jingle. Just kidding. But I did chose Vonage because of their unbelievable $24.99/month plan that includes every feature under the sun including visual voice mails (they actually transcribe your voice mails and send them to you via e-mail) Very cool. All local toll and long distance calls are included in the price, even most internationally calls. You must have a high speed Internet connection (no dial-up) and you have to get used to the fact that your phone line is no longer a POTS line (Plain old telephone service). That means that your jacks do not have dial tone anymore. They send you an adapter that you connect to your cable or dsl modem. You will probably want to invest in a cordless phone system that has multiple handsets. I picked a nice VTECH system up at Walmart that has 3 handsets. It was only $59.99. You can plug the extra handsets in anywhere in the house so you won't miss a call and you don't have to have a RJ21 (telephone jack) in a room to have a phone in it.

My review so far is that I love it! You can log in to your account and configure your services the way you want them. Another cool feature that you can have is "call hunt." When someone calls your main number and you don't answer you can program it to ring on up to 2 different numbers (example.. cell phone). If there is still no answer the call will go to voice mail.

I like it so much that I switched my business line over too. So now I will be saving $110/month on phone bills!!!

If you have any questions or would like to learn more just send me an email at info@wizedezigns.com or call me at 715-377-0233. I am including a sign-up banner and link. If you click on it and put my telephone number 715-377-0233 in the "get it now and start saving box" we will both get 2 MONTHS FREE! That's all for now. More later of course...


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