How many minutes do you use?

Posts: 448 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: How many minutes do you use?

We ported our home number and are Vonage-only now. The line is 100% residential use, no business use of any kind. Typical outbound is 1500-2000 minutes per month, has approached 2500 minutes, and that's just the outbound total. Inbound probably adds another 1000+ minutes.

Compare that with my friend who owns a small business and uses a Vonage biz line. He talks with people all over the country, but has never exceeded the 1500 minutes on his plan. His typical use is 1000-1200 minutes per month-- half the traffic of our "home" use.

I'm curious how many minutes the typical subscriber uses. I'm also curious what Vonage considers abusive (which I'm sure is a well guarded secret). Dan has mentioned algorithms that compare minutes used against the number of different phone numbers called-- i.e., calls to many different numbers and high overall utilization may trigger a "business use" alarm.

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

This is the algo link:

http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic4083.html

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 34

In the 2 months I've had Vonage, and I'm on a similar pace this month, I've had about 3200 outbound minutes each billing period. Their all residential calls, and most are long distance which makes me happy because it averages out to about 1 cent a minute to call across the country.

Posts: 230 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: 2000 a month

On average I do about 2000 minutes a month

Posts: 492 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

I run an average of 1250 per month.

Posts: 176 · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:17 am Post subject:

We barely use 400 minutes. I'm glad they offer a Basic PLan for people like us. I figured we would start on the Basic and if/when our usage approached $25/mo we would just upgrade, but we have only gone over once, around Christmas, for $1 more.

What I tell my family and friends is this is proof of how much Verizon was ripping us off. We let my Mom call her brothers and sisters in Canada just to use up some minutes and save her some money. I am so glad I switched to Vonage. We are hoping to move later this year and we get to take our number with us, just have to update the 911.

Posts: 156 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 30, 2005 Posts: 156

We are around the 400 minute area. Basically talk to parents in Canada once a week for about and hour or so and the rest is used locally calling stores, doctors, friends. If I see that I have minutes to spare toward the end of my billing cycle, I use click2call (that uses 1 inbound minute to make a call) just for the convience of it. We don't have children or house guests so its just 2 of us. For the $17 we pay Vonage each month it is a deal. My Qwest and AT&T monthly bills( local and long distance) together came to about $50-55. Saving $33 or $396 per year. In 10 years I could buy a $4000 widget. Very Happy