NEW FEATURE: Get Your Local Weather Forecast With V-Forecast

Posts: 192 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 192

Get Your Local Weather Forecast

Whenever You Want It

With Vonage V-Forecast, your local forecast is always just a call away. Powered by Accuweather.com, Vonage V-Forecast provides current and 5-day forecasts as well as severe weather warnings. It works for any US Zip Code you enter, so you can use it to get your local weather or to check the forecast for your upcoming vacation or business trip.

Easy to Use:

Using Vonage V-Forecast is simple.

Dial 700-WEATHER (700-932-8437) from any Vonage-enabled device.

Enter any US 5-digit Zip Code.

Listen to the current weather conditions.

If you wish, listen to the 5-day forecast or enter a new Zip Code to check.

Get:

Current Conditions
5-day Forecasts
Severe Weather Warnings
All Available at No Additional Cost

It's that easy. With Vonage V-Forecast, there's no excuse for being caught out in the rain again!

Another Included Vonage Feature:

Like so many other features, Vonage V-Forecast is included with every Vonage monthly calling plan.

http://vonage.com/features.php?feature=weather

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Sep 14, 2006 Posts: 34

this is a feature vonage really doesnt need. What a waste of server space. They need the unknown caller id blocking.

Posts: 60 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 60

canibus23 wrote:

this is a feature vonage really doesnt need. What a waste of server space. They need the unknown caller id blocking.

How about caller ID w/my NAME sent along with the number? I can think of much better enhancements than a weather forecast. I can turn on the Weather Channel and catch my forecast quicker than dialing a 10 digit number.

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Sep 14, 2006 Posts: 34

jmelcher wrote:

canibus23 wrote:

this is a feature vonage really doesnt need. What a waste of server space. They need the unknown caller id blocking.

How about caller ID w/my NAME sent along with the number? I can think of much better enhancements than a weather forecast. I can turn on the Weather Channel and catch my forecast quicker than dialing a 10 digit number.

There are more important features than weather. Nice to know where vonage customer's money goes Smile

Posts: 14 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 24, 2006 Posts: 14

while a fun, interesting, even quirky Idea, I would have to agree the R&D time could have been spent sending my name via caller ID. I'm not saying this is totally worthless (I'll never use it, but hey) It's the kind of funky fun stuff other phone companies don't do.. it's just not priority number 1 right now, I wouldn't think.

Chris

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 27, 2006 Posts: 6

I agree with Chris. The Vonage V-Forecast feature is unique to Vonage but I do not find it useful. In other topics on this forum Anonymous Call Rejection has been on the wish list for over 2 years. I do not remember coming across anyone in the forums requesting to be able to check the weather through Vonage. In addition, call blocking with blacklist and whitelist capabilities has been discussed and requested numerous times. I am not sure why Vonage has dropped the ball on these features. So many other providers offer these features but not Vonage. They must have come across a big road block on the Research and Development side of introducing these features. It will be interesting to see how much longer it takes or if it will ever happen.

Posts: 101 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jun 05, 2005 Posts: 101

It's got to be a joke from Vonage to their users.

So, I am sitting here at the location where my Vonage is.... I have a broadband connection.... I have always been wanting to pickup the phone and dial a number to hear the weather because using my broadband connection and a PC is alot of trouble.

Now if I could just figure out how to block those annoying anonymous calls I keep getting......

Posts: 400 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: May 05, 2005 Posts: 400

grizzley wrote:

It's got to be a joke from Vonage to their users.

So, I am sitting here at the location where my Vonage is.... I have a broadband connection.... I have always been wanting to pickup the phone and dial a number to hear the weather because using my broadband connection and a PC is alot of trouble.

Now if I could just figure out how to block those annoying anonymous calls I keep getting......

Go with a Voip provider who does. Boy a Google search on Voip does wonders.

Posts: 101 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jun 05, 2005 Posts: 101

taylor2767 wrote:

Go with a Voip provider who does. Boy a Google search on Voip does wonders.

Why?

Posts: 4751 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Aug 30, 2005 Posts: 4751

Thanks, Luis. It may not be the most important feature of all time, but it's worth knowing about.