http://radioae6rt.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/more-residential-measured-rate-savings/ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://radioae6rt.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/more-residential-measured-rate-savings/#comment-292 Gnome News is Good News » Blog Archive » Tom Keating offers advice on selecting VoIP services Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:44:54 +0000 http://www.petrovic.org/blog/?p=169#comment-292 [...] Based on actual usage and available phone plans from the local telephone companies in the customer’s region (plain landline carriers), only 0.1% of PhoneGnome customers would actually save money with a typcial pure play VoIP service - that’s only one in 1000 customers! For the rest of us, we are better off getting the cheapest plan for local service from our telephone company and then use either a Pay-As-You-Go or Unlimited plan on our PhoneGnome for long-distance and international calls. The average savings for a PhoneGnome customer doing so is $15.80 per month ($45.19 per month for those making international calls). Assuming a customer demands web-based voicemail and Caller-ID, only 8.7% of customers would save money with a pure-play VoIP service bundle - the other 91.7% save an average of $9.37 per month over a Vonage-like service (a whopping $ 102.38 for those making international calls). One PhoneGnome owner reports how he reduced his local service costs by $7 per month, before any savings for long distance or international calls. [...] [...] Based on actual usage and available phone plans from the local telephone companies in the customer’s region (plain landline carriers), only 0.1% of PhoneGnome customers would actually save money with a typcial pure play VoIP service – that’s only one in 1000 customers! For the rest of us, we are better off getting the cheapest plan for local service from our telephone company and then use either a Pay-As-You-Go or Unlimited plan on our PhoneGnome for long-distance and international calls. The average savings for a PhoneGnome customer doing so is $15.80 per month ($45.19 per month for those making international calls). Assuming a customer demands web-based voicemail and Caller-ID, only 8.7% of customers would save money with a pure-play VoIP service bundle – the other 91.7% save an average of $9.37 per month over a Vonage-like service (a whopping $ 102.38 for those making international calls). One PhoneGnome owner reports how he reduced his local service costs by $7 per month, before any savings for long distance or international calls. [...]

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