VOIP Me - UHHN!
Out here on the edge we don’t have landlines. I’m 100% mobile. This affords me the luxuries of breaking reception, dropped calls and unbelievably high long distance rates when calling my family.
As much as I want to say it, “Sorry Dad, we’re in prime time here, gotta go” isn’t acceptable. Here comes my savior, VOIP!
Out here in Manitoba, your VOIP options aren’t great (unless someone knows something I don’t?). There’s Vonage and Shaw, neither of which provides a significant savings vs. the good ol’ landline phone. Using my best net research techniques I managed to find this voip company out of Vancouver.
For $25 I’ll get unlimited local calling and 500 long distance minutes to use from the soft phone on my laptop.
Although I’m a bit skeptical of a company that will give you free service if you sign up 3 other people, I figure why not. We used IAXcomm VOIP for asterix at my previous job and it worked good from everywhere, so let’s do it.
VOIP ME!
Credit card out, account set up. It’s going to take 24-48 hours to get set up…the waiting begins.