If you’re phone has recently been disconnected, or is in threat of a phone disconnect with a deposit requirement to get it turned back on, it’s time to find an alternative phone service provider. The good news is, you can get good, reliable, affordable phone service even if you’re phone is disconnected – with no deposit required.

Before I continue, let me just ask you a few simple questions:

1. Do you have a home computer or laptop computer?
2. Do you have, or have access to, broadband internet service? (i.e. DSL, cable, WiFi)

If you answered yes to the above questions, then you have everything you need to get started today with low cost phone service that has more features and a better voicemail package than your phone company offers, and for much less money. In fact, almost every major internet phone provider out there offers first month free, so you can get started with no out of pocket expense!

The solution is to sign up for “internet phone service”, or “Voice over Internet Protocol” – also known as VoIP phone service. Very simply, internet phone service turns your highspeed broadband internet connection into a fully functioning, digital quality phone line that costs literally a fraction of what normal phone service costs. To be specific, you can get unlimited long distance calling to the US and Canada for $19.99 or less.

VoIP Features
Along with the high sound quality and low price tag, you get amazing calling features with internet phone service. Here is a partial list:

Call Hold, Caller ID Block, Caller ID Display,
Call Waiting, Call Forward Always, Call Forward on Busy,
Call Forward No Answer, 3-Way Calling, Voicemail, 911 Dialing,
411 Dialing, Toll Free Number, Voice to Email, Virtual Numbers,
Softphone

(Here is a more detailed explanation of each one of these and many more voip features.)

Internet phone service is basically a revolution within the telecommunications industry, and it is growing fast. Top industry experts believe that soon old fashioned telephone service will be completely replaced by VoIP.

So, what are you waiting for? You are no longer at the mercy of your phone company. In fact, you can even keep your phone number when you change over to an internet phone service provider. Or, choose a new phone number – in ANY area code you want, nationwide. The choice is yours, and with your first month free, you have nothing to lose!

No More “Phone Disconnected” notices, No Deposit , No Worries
With the low cost of internet phone service, you don’t have any of the usual phone company threats – Just great phone service that saves you money.

Interesting news broke today about Verizon’s VoiceWing VoIP phone services. Apparently, Verizon plans to scrap VoiceWing in less than a month, on 3/31/2009. Existing customers will be forced to port their number to alternative services, and the porting could take as long as 3 weeks according to Verizon.

When this press release hit, I learned something I hadn’t known before about VoiceWing; this service offering by “Verizon” was actually the private label VoIP service provided by none other than DeltaThree, Inc. I know of several private label providers, started up by small businesses or even individuals, but I had no idea that a company with the size, reputation, infrastructure, and resources of Verizon would opt to offer VoIP by way of a private label provider.

It makes me wonder if Verizon’s stint into the VoIP marketplace was nothing more than a marketing test, to gage whether it would be worthwhile to promote VoIP service via packages of broadband and ATA to the consumer market at large, rather than trying to approach it from the “digital phone” angle that is being successfully offered by the cable companies – essentially VoIP carried over the cable companies’ infrastructure including fiber optic networks. In fact, Verizon announced plans for several new services, essentially VoIP technologies, that will indeed be carried over – you guessed it – Verizon’s own fiber optic networks. Also planned is a broadband carried service called “The Hub” which includes video with touch screen. (Looking forward to more on that one..)

Apparently, the marketing test didn’t pan out too well. Bobbi Henson, Verizon’s spokeswoman, stated that VoiceWing was just promoted to a “niche market” and not the masses. Without disclosing the size of VoiceWing’s customer database, apparently it was quite small – or “not material” in Henson’s words. It probably didn’t help that as things turn out, Deltathree is on shaky ground. The company is reportedly “running out of money” and has been delisted from NasDaq…Ouch.