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Goodbye Vonage! Hello MCI Neighborhood Broadband

It sounds strange that after making such a fuss about moving over to Vonage from MCI that I ended up reversing that decision. The intent was to save a lot of money by switching to VoIP.

It didn't quite worked up that way.

After waiting close to 6 months for Vonage to transfer my phone number over to their service, I gave up and resigned myself to stay with my more expensive telecommunication provider: MCI. So I called Vonage to cancel the number transfer and close my account.

I then went to the MCI web site to see what plans were available. I was hoping to find a cheaper plan that I could subscribe to. I was very pleasantly surprised when I found out that they were offering their own VoIP service. I signed up, filed the Letter of Authorization to transfer my phone line to their VoIP service. I now have a transfer date, which is something that Vonage never had.

I guess that I'll see what happens next. I am still waiting to receive the adapter from MCI. I'll know then whether the sound quality is going to be good. I am also looking forward to see if MCI is going to be able to keep their promise and transfer my number when they said they would.

The end result: I'll save as much money as I originally planned when I wanted to switch to Vonage. Good stuff :)

-- Fred
( Jul 14 2005, 11:21:06 AM MDT ) Permalink Comments [0]