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How To
Extend Vonage World® To Your Cell Phone
Recent release of Vonage
Mobile® application on the iPhone and Blackberry has caused a lot
of excitement among bloggers, iPhone and Blackberry users and the
news media. What is little known to everybody is that with the
installation of a small hardware on the Vonage World® line,
Vonage Mobile® becomes obsolete. Everybody
was waiting for a Vonage World® version that would work on their
cell phones. What we got was just a cheaper calling card that works
only on an expensive smart phone - the iPhone or the Blackberry.
Using an iPhone, we have a choice of operating it on a 3g network,
WiFi or regular cellular network. With the Blackberry, we can only
use the regular cellular network. When we run it on a 3g network, we
incur an additional $20 monthly fee. When we run it on a regular
cellular network we pay for expensive air time and long distance
charges. When we choose to go with WiFi we have to seek out hotspots,
which are not readily available. It is also inconvenient that we must
anticipate and prepay for these services. There is no need for any of
these if you already have a Vonage World® account. You can extend
your Vonage World® line to any cell phone now. Here’s how:
Slash
Your Monthly Bill and Get Free Unlimited Air Time
You subscribe to a
cellular plan which has either free incoming calls or free calls to
and from favorite numbers. You designate your Vonage® number as a
favorite number. This gives you free unlimited air time calling to
and from that number. Even as heavy cell phone users, you can sign up
for the minimum $49 per month plan and slash your monthly bill by
half and still make free unlimited air time and long distance calls.
Access
and Call Out From Your Vonage World® Line
To illustrate how Vonage World® can be accessed manually
by any cell phone user using the
regular cellular network, let us say you have somebody (your wife) at
home where your Vonage World line is installed. You call your
Vonage®line (or have your wife call you from the Vonage® line),
your
wife answers and you tell her to transfer the call to another number
which could be domestic (all USA and Canadian numbers located
anywhere in the world are transferable) or international (some
countries like India, China, Malaysia are transferable). Your wife
will tap the hook switch (flash), put you on hold and get another
dial tone. She then dials “#90” (to tell Vonage® it is a
transfer call), the country code, city code and the telephone number.
Vonage® will automatically transfer the call to connect you
directly to the destination number. Vonage® will send your wife a
stutter dial tone and a long dial tone to signal her to hang up and
free up the Vonage® line. Your son (friend, employee, etc.),
using their own cell phone, can repeat the process and be connected
to their destination number at the same time you are using the
system. Of course it is not practical for your wife to do all these
things for you even if you are saving a bundle. What
you can do is
install a telecommunication switch such as the DialMate® CM1003 on
your Vonage® line and have it perform all these functions for
you. With this combination you can place the cheapest domestic and
international calls from your cell phone. As an added bonus, the
people you call in those 60 flat-rate-calling-countries can also use
your Vonage World® line to call those 60 countries for free and
most importantly, using just an ordinary cell phone or landline,
without a broadband connection. Replacing your sim card with a local
one when traveling to those flat-rate countries that include free
cell phone calling gives you the same valuable benefit.
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