Very Hot: 2 years of Via Talk - $199 (3 days only)

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kamiller42

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I received an e-mail from Via Talk saying in celebration of them completing their beta phase, they are offering 2 years of service for $199. I believe this runs 4/24/06 thru 4/26/06. Current customers can extend their service a year for $99.

http://www.viatalk.com/
 
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This is HHOOTT! I am a current customer, and ViaTalk is AWESOME. I'm currently paying $22/month. I am going to sign up for this extra year for $99 right away tomorrow! That's less than $10/month!
 
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rugby

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I just signed up for a second line. If they're good I'll port my voicepulse # over to them.
 
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Robor

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I'm all over this. I had Sunrocket ($199/year) for about 6 months and left for Vonage due to problems with Sunrocket. Well, with Vonage you pay $28/month and they don't pass outbound CallerID name. I left Vonage to go back to SunRocket last month and have had nothing but problem after problem so I cancelled.

EDIT: I checked my city and it wasn't on the list but every city surrounding me is and they're all the same area code. Hopefully I'll be able to use one of them and sign up. Apparently there's a lot of people trying to sign up as well - I was #23 in queue!

EDIT2: Ouch, my neck - 26 minutes on hold! Anyway, an FYI out to anyone interested who's exact city isn't listed but other (same area code) neighboring cities are. You can order with one of those other neighboring cities without issue. I'm signing up now.
 
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Tu13erhead

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Can any current ViaTalk members comment on the voice quality? I hear that lots of VoIP services are horrible in this respect.
 
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TripleAAA

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This is really tempting, but I've never used a VOIP service. I'm also relocating soon from California to Kentucky and I'm not sure what type of services are going to be readily available there.

Do you have to pay the $199 all at once or is it monthly?
 
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kamiller42

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Tu13erhead, I am very pleased with the quality. The service is better than what I had with Lingo.

TripleAAA, you pay the $199 up front.
 
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Robor

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I just signed up and it's an 'all at once' payment.

I have a question though... I used the sale link to sign up with Firefox and IE and in the plan options I only saw 12 months for $199 (not 24 months as the sale specifies). I didn't see any code required or anything. I went through with it anyway. I guess the free month doesn't show up until later? I dunno... :-/
 
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Originally posted by: Jawo
Originally posted by: superHARD
Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Promo link:

http://www.viatalk.com/vtfreeyear.htm

I really wish I had a need for a VoIP line as I would be all over this. Tempting...
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The exact same think I was thinking...but a cell phone is all I really need.
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Same here...why would you need a landline if you have a cell phone?
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The only reason I can think of is if you want unlimited long distance in the daytime
 
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Robor

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Originally posted by: Jawo
Originally posted by: superHARD
Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Promo link:

http://www.viatalk.com/vtfreeyear.htm

I really wish I had a need for a VoIP line as I would be all over this. Tempting...
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The exact same think I was thinking...but a cell phone is all I really need.
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Same here...why would you need a landline if you have a cell phone?
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The answer is rather obvious. Cell plans usually have a limit on their minutes. Go over it and you're probably paying $.10/minute at best or as high as $.40/minute. That adds up quickly. This plan is unlimited and only ~ $8.71/month. Also, this service has far more features than my (Cingular) cell phone plan.

 
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is this number or the service portable as long as i carry the adapter with me?

say i work both at my own apt and my parent's. so if i use this as my work line, i can bring my adapter to either my apt or my parents and the number would work?

or if i need to travel to say another country, but i have broadband access, if i bring my router and adapter with me, will people be able to call me using local lines?

if so this would work awesome for my needs
 
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Robor

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Originally posted by: EKKC
is this number or the service portable as long as i carry the adapter with me?

say i work both at my own apt and my parent's. so if i use this as my work line, i can bring my adapter to either my apt or my parents and the number would work?

or if i need to travel to say another country, but i have broadband access, if i bring my router and adapter with me, will people be able to call me using local lines?

if so this would work awesome for my needs
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There was a discussion about this over in the SunRocket thread. Technically you'd think it would work but I don't know if it was ever tested as functional.
 
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Yes, it works. Or at least, ViaTalk says it works. Hopefully it sill, because I'm a ViaTalk customer, and this summer I'll be trying to use it in TN for a few months instead of MA as I'll be home for the summer.
 
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I am very serious about signing it up today.

Adam and other existing customers, please share your experiences about Via Talk. How are they compare with bounch of other VOIP providers like Verizon, Comcast, vonage, etc....

Thanks.
 
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kamiller42

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Originally posted by: Robor
I have a question though... I used the sale link to sign up with Firefox and IE and in the plan options I only saw 12 months for $199 (not 24 months as the sale specifies). I didn't see any code required or anything. I went through with it anyway. I guess the free month doesn't show up until later? I dunno... :-/
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Go to the Control Panel, look on the left side under Package Overview, and check your Next Due date. It should be 2 years out.
 
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Originally posted by: dayg
I am very serious about signing it up today.

Adam and other existing customers, please share your experiences about Via Talk. How are they compare with bounch of other VOIP providers like Verizon, Comcast, vonage, etc....

Thanks.
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I've used ViaTalk for a year, and service has been perfect. Call quality sounds at least as good as land lines to me, and I've never experienced any outages. I'll list two of my favorite features, which are call recording, and e-mail audio messages. During a call, if you hit *11 it will record it. There all kinds of good uses for this: record a CSR saying something so you can hold them to it later, save money by replaying your phone sex conversations over and over:p, tape that crank caller and shake him down for money before turning the recording in to the police, etc. etc. I'm sure you can think of many more creative uses :)

The e-mailing of audio messages is very handy. I have my account set up so that when a message is left for me, a WAV file of the message is automatically sent to my e-mail account. That way I can listen to my messages when I'm away from a phone but have access to a computer. I use this feature all the time, especially when I'm on vacation.

Customer Service is very friendly. Ever time I've called I get the sense that I'm talking to a "fun" company, a bunch of young people who seem really interested and helpful; it doesn't have a "corporate" feel. One time I ended up chatting with a support person for like an hour about technology, life, jobs, etc.

So, to anyone considering this deal, I would definitely recommend jumping on it. $199 for two years is really insane. Even $199 for one year is good, it's under $17/month, so I see this as basically a no-lose situation. My $.02
 
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EKKC

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adam: do you do a lot of downloading? i want to know how this will affect my download, or at least, how downloads will affect my call quality. i have a 6M cable line but do a lot of Bittorrent downloading non stop 24/7/365.

this has got me thinking, if i go through my ISP, and not a service like ViaTalk, for the VoIP service, (mine is road runner), will they actually put the VoIP on the unused portion of the bandwidth that my line is capable of? say my VoIP needs 1M, my bandwitdth in general will still be 6M since it will use the 7th MB for voice?
 
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