Re: VOIP

Up until the last paragraph I could have written this post (except I use 
Accessline instead of RingCentral). So what is this service that scans 
your mail and emails it to you? I am interested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Charlie Whisonant

Yvonne M. Renfrew wrote:

>Stuart Levine wrote: 
>
>"Does anyone on this list use VOIP either for home or, more importantly, for
>the office.  The bells and whistles look great, but I am concerned about
>sound quality.  Is the sound quality sufficient for business use?"
>
>Vonage is great.
>
>However, I ALSO use RingCentral [www.ringcentral.com] "on top" of Vonage,
>which gives me, for a flat rate, UNLIMITED incoming toll free calls, which I
>then have forwarded to my Vonage numbers and cell phone.
>
>RingCentral lets anyone call or send a fax to me toll-free.  I can forward
>the toll free number to a specific number, or have RingCentral hunt me down
>by calling a bunch of numbers, which it can ring sequentially or all at
>once.  Also, I have a slight preference for RingCentral's voice mail over
>Vonage's.  Both will e-mail your messages to you [absolutely great for sole
>practitioners who travel].  
>
>I have noticed a very slight tendency for Vonage to drop calls during our
>recent thunderstorms.  [But then, I was hiding under the bed anyway.]
>
>I should add that I have an extremely high speed  internet connection, and
>I'm not sure I would be as enthusiastic about VOIP if I tried it with
>limited bandwidth.  
>
>Here's what I suggest.  To try out Vonage, keep your old POTS account for a
>few weeks, and just use remote call forwarding to forward all calls to your
>Vonage number.  Your calls will then come to you over VOIP, and you can see
>if you like it.  If you do like VOIP, you can port then your existing phone
>numbers to Vonage [under the phone number portability provisions].  If you
>don't like VOIP,  just turn off remote call forwarding, and you are
>instantly back to where you started.
>
>An added plus:  Vonage make available to existing customers a "Softphone"
>for $10 per month.  This is a software phone which operates from and on your
>laptop.  When you go to New York, for example, if you have your laptop with
>you, then you have a phone which you can use with any high speed internet
>connection.  Not only do you avoid extortionate hotel phone rates, but calls
>to your office can reach you, since you will have forwarded your "regular"
>Vonage calls to your office to your "Softphone" number and/or cell.  You can
>achieve the same result by just taking with you the small adapter and
>plugging it into the Hotel's internet connection, but believe me, the
>Softphone is much more convenient.  [So much so that I use it constantly
>even when in the office.]
>
> 
>I have found my VOIP set-up, especially when added to another service which
>scans and sends to me via e-mail my U.S. Mail, to be absolutely
>indispensable.  If you are a sole practitioner, this combo may actually
>permit you to take a vacation without spending sleepless nights.
> 
>
>YVONNE M. RENFREW  [[email protected]]
>
>Telephone:     323-222-0500 [Toll Free 888-752-7752]
>
>Facsimile:       323-222-5600
>
> 
>
>
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