Goodbye Long Distance Charges..

Since Ive moved to the Upper North end .. Newmarket... which is only 40 mins from downtown... so kiss my ass ;) I've had to deal with long distance charges left right and center. The only place I could call without having to place a long distance call was Newmarket... heh or Richmond Hill.

Well as of yesterday I finally got my new gear from Vonage. ITS SWEET. When I used to travel alot @ my last job I used Skpe, which was great because it used VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) which allowed me to call any land line using my laptop. Well Vonage is the same thing.. except they hook you up with a Router which connects to your high speed router and from that I run a phone line out to my phone. I ran out grabbed one of those 3 base cordless phones... and Im all set up now.

You get every feature you can think of... and ANYWHERE in North America is treated as a local call. If my interent connection goes down at home.. it will automatically forward any incoming calls to my cell phone.

Another cool thing is I was able to choose any area code number in Ontario... So I grabbed a 416 number which is sweet! Now I dont have to deal with people calling my cell 24/7 cause they dont want to call my land line. The really cool shit is that from my login page on Vonage I set anything up from there and even check my voicemail to if I wish. It goes as far as emailing me to notify me that I have a voicemail if I want as well.

Called my cuz in Boston last night and chatted him up for almost an hour and didnt pay a red cent in long distance fees... Its costing me 39.99 a month which is cheaper than what I was payin through Rogers monthly and that does not include my long distance fees I was rackin up.

Cheers.