Originally posted by: anthcla81
do you have a link to the details of this? I checked cc.com and vonage, and dont see anything mentioning it. I know ive read about other people getting the deal, but never saw the specifics
Originally posted by: CocoGdog
I saw this online and want to go switch today. My Verizon land-line bill was over $50 and I am never around the apartment to make any calls. You have to go to Circuit City to sign up.
Originally posted by: elph
Regarding the PAP2 - Mine is hooked up and giving me free incoming calls with a seattle number and $13 every 90 days got me free outgoing calls to several countries. Great little device.
However, it seems like OP is talking about a different deal.
Originally posted by: CocoGdog
I saw this online and want to go switch today. My Verizon land-line bill was over $50 and I am never around the apartment to make any calls. You have to go to Circuit City to sign up.
Originally posted by: CocoGdog
I completed this deal yesterday.
1. Went to Circuit City
2. Signed up for Vonage Service for $14.99 a month ($29.99 activation).
a. They allowed me to keep my existing phone number
b. You have to sign up with your real address for 911 service
c. You need a broadband service, preferably cable because DSL uses PPPoe and you need to jump
through hurdles sometimes to get it to work with DSL, but it's worth it.
3. Purchase this phone Phone
a. It comes with a rebate.
b. It's a 5.8 gigahertz, and you can add extra handsets
4. Received $200 Gift Card from Circuit City (no strings attached) instantly
5. Went home hooked it up, charged the phone, signed into email to confirm service, and bam -
phone is working next day.
6. It takes 20 days for your old phone number to be totally free of Verizon or SBC or whatever old company you're with.
So in the end it was...
$14.99 x 12 months = $180.00 - Free $200 Gift Card = 1 year of phone service for almost free
Couldn't you just cancel and re-up? Or is this only for truly "new" customers?Originally posted by: Helical
Originally posted by: CocoGdog
I completed this deal yesterday.
1. Went to Circuit City
2. Signed up for Vonage Service for $14.99 a month ($29.99 activation).
a. They allowed me to keep my existing phone number
b. You have to sign up with your real address for 911 service
c. You need a broadband service, preferably cable because DSL uses PPPoe and you need to jump
through hurdles sometimes to get it to work with DSL, but it's worth it.
3. Purchase this phone Phone
a. It comes with a rebate.
b. It's a 5.8 gigahertz, and you can add extra handsets
4. Received $200 Gift Card from Circuit City (no strings attached) instantly
5. Went home hooked it up, charged the phone, signed into email to confirm service, and bam -
phone is working next day.
6. It takes 20 days for your old phone number to be totally free of Verizon or SBC or whatever old company you're with.
So in the end it was...
$14.99 x 12 months = $180.00 - Free $200 Gift Card = 1 year of phone service for almost free
That is so incredibly hot. Makes me wish I didn't have Vonage already - been with them for well over a year now on the $14.99 plan and am very, very happy. Wish I could say the same for my flaky Comcast service...
Cash in, folks!
Originally posted by: gordita
yes, the other forum has a boatload of info on this deal.
This is just so incredibly tempting but four things keep me from switching over.
1. I have two dish receivers who must be connected to a phone line 24/7. I'm not sure how vonage works with Dish........anyone have any info on forums I can hit?
2. I've been using a VoIP device since the last 5 yrs which has a modem and I use a dialup account to dial onto the net. once I'm connected, I just call the other device (my parents overseas, in asia do the same procedure) and bam.......free talking for hours....
with vonage, I don't know if I can use this device to dial out...
3. i very much need to use my existing phone lines in my townhouse, so I will need to disconnect the frontier phone line coming into the house........I don't know how much hassle this would be.....
4. last but not the least, thankfully, I don't use my home phone much but I do use bottorrent a lot and I don't know how this affects my BW.....
anyone wanna chime in?
Originally posted by: isekii
Dish doesn't need to be connected to the Phone lines.
Mine's never been connected to the landline ever.
Originally posted by: anthcla81
Originally posted by: isekii
Dish doesn't need to be connected to the Phone lines.
Mine's never been connected to the landline ever.
doesnt need to be, but some do need to be connected to a to avoid a $4.99/month/receiver fee, if you have one of the dual tuners(522/622/625/whichever models they released since i left that horrible job january of last year).
but to answer the original question, as far as i know(again, this is info from january of this year, but knowing dish, it hasnt been fixed), the dish receiver likely wont communicate through voip
Originally posted by: CocoGdog
Also, you can get this USB thing that connects to your computer at work or at play to make free calls -
VONAGE USB 256mb Key.. It is free after rebate, so get it on the same receipt if you want. I heard good things and bad things about it, but it's free and a cool gadget to play with.