i have been using dialpad for a few months now, and find it to be much cheaper than vonage. i pay $7.50 / mo. for more minutes than i use. i use k7.net for a free voicemail service, and voila: full phone service for less than $10. i do keep an old cel phone with no service plan on hand for emergencies.
i've also been looking into yahoo's pc-to-phone service, because they charge $0.02 / min. if their service is solid and fluid, i may switch over. so far, so good with dialpad, though. plus, i used dialpad free for so long that i might as well give them a few duckets now that they survived the onslaught from telcoms.
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i have been using dialpad for a few months now, and find it to be much cheaper than vonage. i pay $7.50 / mo. for more minutes than i use. i use k7.net for a free voicemail service, and voila: full phone service for less than $10. i do keep an old cel phone with no service plan on hand for emergencies. i've also been looking into yahoo's pc-to-phone service, because they charge $0.02 / min. if their service is solid and fluid, i may switch over. so far, so good with dialpad, though. plus, i used dialpad free for so long that i might as well give them a few duckets now that they survived the onslaught from telcoms.
all you need is an old cel phone if you want 9-1-1 service. why rely on the net at the point of emergency anyway? may as well be mobile.