New Features V-Me and V-Fax

Posts: 429 · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: New Features V-Me and V-Fax

Check out the latest features that Vonage is offering. The V-Me looks pretty cool. Attach it as a signature to your email and people can call you without even knowing or seeing your number. Great way to make your self available to take calls but not having to give your number out to often. V-Fax looks like any other online fax system except this is free for Vonage users. Pretty Cool!!! Check it out here.
http://alpha.vonage.com/

Posts: 1320 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1320

Thank you for this great find. I am adding it to my email signature and will be using the fax feature, since I don't have a fax machine. I will have to do a test at work.

Posts: 12 · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject:

I couldn't find it in the V-Me "Help" section -- do those who "call" me from another area code using V-Me get charged for a long-distance call? I wouldn't think they could, if the call was incoming for them, but phone companies have been using phone bills like credit cards for years now, so I'm not taking any chances.

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I am not sure on that. I tried it from my cell phone and the number came up as an 877 number on the cell phone. I tried it from my soft phone account and it came up as the name I chose on the V-Me page.

I will called tech support and ask the question, but since I am in Canada this feature isn't supported by their tech support. I then called tech support in the U.S, I asked the question and was put on hold, or shall I say got disconnected. I called back but waited to long on hold. I will try again soon.

Posts: 414 · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject:

I tried v-fax two times, and it failed with a com error to my PSTN fax. It is still in alpha so I wouldn't expect to much from it.

Posts: 1320 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1320

I sent a fax to my work and the message came back sent OK, I will check at work in the morning and post my results.

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

MaxH wrote:

do those who "call" me from another area code using V-Me get charged for a long-distance call?

I'd say no. Instead, your Vonage account gets charged for the minutes (if you're on the 500 minute plan) where normal incoming calls don't count against your minutes.

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

roscopco wrote:

I tried it from my cell phone and the number came up as an 877 number on the cell phone.

Yeah, I tried calling that 877 number back and immedately went to some voicemail box.

Posts: 233 · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

I haven't had any luck with the fax, but it may be the junky fax machine I have on the receiving end. I won't have a chance to try call-me until later. Wow. Vonage is getting on the creative end of things. Smile

Nice going. Notice that things like the "call me" is a great feature that will be difficult for the PSTN to match. Don't tell Verizon. They'll pay off somebody in the government and patent it. Evil or Very Mad

I think we owe a big "thank you" to Vonage for letting us see these upcoming features. We have to remember these are trial features and we are providing constructive feedback to help them. As they would say on Hee Haw, "Saaaa-Looot" Cool

Posts: 12 · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

These are nice; innovative, even, but I'm still dying for something that should be easy in comparison to program: the ability to schedule call forwarding or simul-ring to be on for a set time every day...say while I'm at work, maybe?

Heck, I'd settle for a link to the Vonage site in the voicemail alerts, so I can save a few clicks when I go to delete the message. How hard is that?