http://www.teksavvy.com
Home Phone: $21.48/mo
- No Contract
- Highly Discounted Features
Long Distance: $0.029/min or $19.95/mo for Unlimited North American Calling
- No Contract
Internet: $29.95/mo for DSL
- Up to 5M/800k (my phone line goes no faster)
- Bandwidth of 200G/mo (I average under 30G)
This company is the darling on dslreports. It's a good site to see some reviews of all the Internet carriers.
http://www.dslreports.com/isplist?c=ca
Looks like lots of folk do not have all these services, which makes comparisons challenging. It is also clear that the options available to folks differ depending on the market -- it's easy to find competition in large centers, but not in smaller centers, so some companies take the cream, while others actually try to service MORE of the market, at greater costs.
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For the home phone we use Vonage.ca. The basic plan is 19.99 + taxes which is around 23$/month. You have so many features. The one feature I like best (besides caller id and voicemail) is the one that sends me an email with the voicemail attach. I send it to my work email and 2 more email addresses so I can take my voicemail on any computers.
Also they have SimRing. When my home phone rings, I also ring my cell phone in case I'm not home.
We experienced no lost of service from Vonage but you need to have an high speed internet service (which most people have now). It's very easy to setup (plug-and-play)
And a tip to save money with Vonage, you can refer people. For each account you refer and sign-up with vonage and use the service for 3 months you'll get 2 months free. I already got several months free.
So if you are thinking about signing up with vonage let me know and I'll refer you.
Edit: And I forgot the best part, no long distance for all north america and cheap fee for europe and other.
Have they overcome the 911 issues with VOIP? I remember that baby died in Alberta because when they called 911 emergency services were dispatched in Ontario by mistake...Originally Posted by JF.
For long distance, I think VOIP cannot be beat right now but the 911 issue was a killer for me.
This is a common misconception and there aren't any 911 issues per se. I have Vonage, and from what I recall, they make it very explicit when you sign up, on a yearly basis, as well as on their website that 911 works differently from 911 on regular land lines.
Users are told that the 911 address MUST be their current residential address. For the vast majority of people, the residential address will be the billing address. For some people, however, the billing address may be their office or another location. Given these simple instructions, it's not difficult to get it wrong, but I guess, in the tragic case of the baby in AB, it can go wrong.
As for Vonage itself, at 19.99 a month, it's hard to beat.
Are you sure you have Basic Cable? I wanted Basic plus HD and was told that I have to have Extended Cable in order to get HD.
I purchased my own HD box at Xmas for a hundred bucks, so that shaves around $12 off my bill each month.
Nick, you may want to call them again. You don't need extended cable to get the HD box.
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Home phone - Bell: $22
Cell - Rogers: free through work
Cable - rogers: $70 includes HD box and channels....no special channels
Internet - Teksavvy: $30
I need to see if I can get this down too $100.
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have you called Rogers and asked them for a bundles deal on combining cable with ultra-lite internet?
With the 'extended basic' package cable (CH 2-99) without HD box should be around $55 combined with ultra-lite with get you in around $78
I pay for those two before tax exactly $78.08
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