Cut Your Phone Bills
As we all know, utility bills have skyrocketed in recent months- having a pretty big impact on family finance and budgeting. As a result, parents need to look around to see where they can save money and one way they can do this is by looking at the way they communicate.
Phone bills, both landline and mobile, are something many families dread at the end of the month. However, this can be avoided by making your calls through the internet in place of your traditional landline. By switching to VoIP (the technical word for it!), families can literally save hundreds of pounds on their phone bill.
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With Vonage, for example, £8 a month gives you free, unlimited internet calls to any UK landline- perfect for those teenage years when they’re never off the phone as well stay at home mums who can only chat when its nap time- usually peak time for phone calls!
What is VOIP and Who is Vonage?
With over 1 million lines, Vonage is at the forefront of the internet telephone revolution (also called VoIP - voice over internet protocol). Unlike with software-based VoIP services (such as Skype), Vonage users do not need to be connected to a PC to make calls and can use a conventional touch-tone telephone rather than a headset (your PC need never be on all you need is a broadband connection – which most people have these days).
Using a broadband internet connection to make calls rather than traditional phone lines offers not only considerable cost savings. Besides cheap calls, Vonage users also benefit from a series of innovative and useful features such as:
 Virtual numbers - users can get a virtual number from any of the 601 area codes Vonage offers in the UK as well as cities in the US and Canada, so that friends and family in those countries can call the user at local rates no matter where in the world he/she is based
Phone number for life - take the number with you wherever you go in the world (you just plug in your box to an internet connection and away you go)
Free calls to other Vonage users anywhere in the world as well as free national calls (to all landlines)
Secure service - the Vonage service does not need a PC, which eliminates the threat of computer viruses faced by software-based VoIP services
Voicemail - Vonage voicemail gives users total control over their voicemail by phone, through email, and online. Users can now check their voicemails without having to check their phone!
Emergency call enabled - unlike some other VoIP services, Vonage users can call emergency services without needing an operational PC
All this just costs £7.99 a month (see www.vonage.co.uk).
Don't forget there are lots of telecommunication companies out there who might be worth taking a look at. You can save a lot of money if you shop around. |
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