Why do people ask about US Phone numbers in the same messages as they ask about VoIP?
The price of both Packet8 and Vonage includes unlimited calls to other customers on the same network. They also provide connections to regular telephones (land line and cellular) in the U.S. and Canada for free or a small per minute charge based upon your serivce plan. They also provide cheap international service. Note that this enters the phone network from the US, so the latency may be too high to use. They also provide free incoming calls. In order for incoming calls to work, there must be an incoming number. Both services let you choose whereever you want the number to be in the US. More than one incoming number, toll free numbers and Canadian numbers are available at an extra fee. Geoff Mendelson says, “My experiments have found that calling from Israel via Vonage to either Vonage or Packet 8 users has too high a latency to be useable. For those calls I still maintain an account with a discount regular telephone service.” Both Vonage and Packet8 are intended to be used with a reg
