How many ways can you make a cheap phone call these days? A LOT of people use their cel phone minutes to make long distance calls. I’m not a huge fan of doing that simply because it seems like every tenth word doesn’t come through very well.
So, what to do, what to do. You can be like me and sign up for Vonage and get a little extra life out of your broadband connection. And since Comcast has raised my speed up to 6 megabit, I’ve got lots to use. Too bad they wouldn’t take me up on my offer to give me a slower connection for less money. Anyway, Vonage turned out to be one of those decisions that you realize you made incorrectly, after the fact. I haven’t used Vonage NEARLY enough to justify it’s cost. It’s been nice to have a second line, but we aren’t using nearly enough minutes. Luckily I opted for their cheap plan of $15 per month for 500 minutes instead of their unlimited. I reasoned that I probably wouldn’t even reach 500 minutes and if I did, their per minute cost would have still allowed me to talk for almost 750 minutes before I reached the cost of an unlimited plan.
So, I’ve decided to cancel my Vonage account. Instead, I’m going to use my Skype account and just put $10 in. That will give me 500 minutes of Skype “out” calls (where I can call any regular phone from my PC, including England) and no monthly charge. I’ve tried it and the quality is better than Vonage. I have a great small headset for use with it and Googletalk.
Vonage is officially canceled. It was interesting. The guy offered me a $9.99 plan that would let me keep the phone number and give me 100 minutes a month. I thought about it for a second and then decided NOPE.
Something tells me that I’m going to suck it up and just use the cel phone for long distance.
Cell phones for LD depends on the reception you get. Personally, I have no problems like what you speak about. But my dad can’t use his cell phone at home (in SC) because he doesn’t get good enough reception.