Unlimited International Phone Calls with Vonage
I have been living in the UK for over 10 years, at the beginning it was quite hard speaking to my family in Brazil, international calls were expensive, and I would need to buy a calling card to keep in touch with my parents.
After some time, we started talking through video calls on the computer, it was nice seeing them, but I missed picking up the phone whenever I wanted to have a chat with my mum.
Vonage is an international VoIP phone service provider for home and small business users designed to dramatically reduce the cost of UK and international phone calls by using the internet to bypass traditional phone networks.
Once my Vonage starter box arrived, it was easy and simply to set it up following the instructions provided. Vonage starter pack comes with a Vonage Box worth £39.99, a cable to connect the Vonage Box to your broadband router and instructions in the Vonage box quick start guide.
Basically, all I had to do was to connect the Vonage Box to my existing broadband, plug my phone into the new Vonage Box and it was all set up to pick up the phone and start calling abroad for free. The back of the Vonage box is colour coded and arrived with , so it was straight forward to connect the cables in the right ports.
In order to use Vonage with your home phone to make unlimited international calls with your Vonage account, you will need a home broadband service. There are a range of plans available, I have been placed on the Premium World & Mobile 250 calling plan, which includes unlimited UK and Ireland landline calls, unlimited calls to 68 countries and 250 minutes to UK mobiles.
Once our Vonage box was set up, we simply dialled the international numbers and were able to speak to our family in Brazil. The connection is great, we’ve never had any problems or disconnection issues using our home phone to call abroad. You can also make international and UK phone calls from your mobile phone using Vonage Extensions by downloading a free app to your smartphone and linking your smartphone to your Vonage account.
Overall, we really enjoyed trialling the service, it was great making international phone calls whenever we wished without worrying about phone call charges. Our phone number changed during the trial, however there is the option of keeping your existing phone number when you join Vonage by transferring your old number.
For more information, please check http://www.vonage.co.uk/
We trialled the service free of charge for review purposes. However the opinions expressed in this review are honest and my own.