Entire town had no phone service, but I did!

Posts: 2251 · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:08 am Post subject:

JoeO wrote:

My experience is that when you order Vonage over the phone..they can't tell if there are local numbers in your area, and even if you ask them to verify...they can't tell you.

And how does this relate to the topic title?

I am not much for name calling, but Hook does have a point...

Let's get this back on topic please.

Posts: 30 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 30

And how does this relate to the topic title?

I am not much for name calling, but Hook does have a point...

Let's get this back on topic please.
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I agree totally..my response to the original post was that cell phone users would have access as well...and so would other Voip. My reply was not to CUT DOWN Vonage as hookbill has turned it into.

I was merely pointing out that Vonage really isn't the reason the person had phone service. The reason the person had phone service is because she had some form of broadband other than DSL/ADSL (phone line)...and that in reality he/she wasn't the only person in town with phone service.

Hookbill has attacked me in the past and taken posts where they should not have gone. For some reason he has a "thing" for Vonage.

Posts: 28 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 28

JoeO wrote:

I was merely pointing out that Vonage really isn't the reason the person had phone service. The reason the person had phone service is because she had some form of broadband other than DSL/ADSL (phone line)...and that in reality he/she wasn't the only person in town with phone service.

Hookbill has attacked me in the past and taken posts where they should not have gone. For some reason he has a "thing" for Vonage.

Joe, I am not so naive as to think I was the only person in town that was able to make a call, just pointing out anybody with SBC phone service here in Yorkville Illinois was dead in the water yesterday and I could make and receive calls. There are so many negative Vonage comments on this forum (and I've posted a few) just thought I would share a good thing that happened to me.

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

I've experienced this 2-3 times since I've had Vonage. After Hurricane Wilma, Sprint (local phone co in SW FL) screwed up and forgot which central offices the trunks ran through, put generators on the ones they thought were critical, but not the ones which were actually critical,so once the batteries died, that's it, lines were out. Cell phones were also rendered useless by this, as they ultimately terminate with the wireline phone co.

Similarly, we had 2 other times when fiber lines were cut, knocking out both landline & cell service.

In both of these times, Vonage, being located outside of Florida, still worked like normal. Of course, your internet connection and source of power will be a limiting factor in situations like this, but I had plenty of those to choose from. Another factor that works in Vonage's advantage is their distributed network. When a hurricane is approaching FL, landline long distance trunks are flooded. Once the winds pick up, the cell towers start getting damaged and start failing as well.