I'm in the middle of bailing from Vonage due to their legal woes ,cost   in relation to other providers and more importantly their feature stagnation over the time I've been with them.  I was pleasantly surprised to see a slough of new options  on many of the rival companies which are actually useful  rather than marketing bullet points.   

Here's some of the things my phone can do.

• Restricts the phone ringing after 10pm and sends all users to voicemail, unless, you are on my list of people that can call us. 
• Ensures that people that withhold ID verify they are human and not auto diallers ,if not you're ditched 
• Can change my outgoing called id.
• I have an RSS feed for my voicemail
• Can record all calls readily using the virtual phone on my PC
• Alarm calls and   oh just about anything you could pay a telco to do , but don't need to,

The neatest part for me is this. I have a physical phone, the Budgetone that  hooks up to my router via cat 5  which  has it's own admin page   it took me under 5 minutes to set this up  and make a call from receiving the phone, its network neutral so I can  change Voip Co's   if I wish and NOT have to toss out my old router ( thanks for locking mine up Vonage  another reason why I'm leaving )  This phone costs less than an unlocked router.

So far call quality locally and to the UK has been acceptable ( Hey I'm not unrealistic  it's Voip) to amazing   though the latter not the norm. All in all I gain so much at the risk of the occasional outage ( which redirects to my cell anyway)  for far less than  the price of the cable co's generous offer of three phone features and a couple of hundred minutes.  No wonder they want to take these guys down with BS patents  because competing doesn't seem to be in their immediate future.


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