Compare us to Vonage residential and business VoIP plans.

  VoIPVoIP Vonage Vonage
Name of the Plan Pay-as-yo-Go Residential Unlimited Business Unlimited
Activation Fee $0 $24.99 $49.99
Activation taxes and other fees $0 $2.44 $3.79
Equipment Fee ($0 with BYOD option) $49.95 (unlocked) $0 (locked to Vonage) $0 (locked to Vonage)
Features Voicemail, Caller ID, etc included YES YES YES
Features Fee $0 $0 $0
Monthly Fee $0 $24.99 $49.99
Taxes and Other Fees $0 $2.44 $3.79
Virtual US Phone Number to receive calls $6.99 $0 $0
Incoming Calls Fee $0 $0 $0
Intl Virtual Phone Numbers available Over 40 countries 7 countries 7 countries
US & Canada Rates 1.9¢/min 0 ¢/min 0 ¢/min
International Rates for over 25 countries 1.9¢/min 0 ¢/min - 7 ¢/min 0 ¢/min - 7 ¢/min
International Rates for other countries Very Low Low Low
Bundled Phone Card in US
(cheap calls even without VoIP service)
YES NO NO
Phone Card Fee $0 N/A N/A
Phone Card Access Rate 1¢/min N/A N/A
Total Yearly Cost $163.83 + cost of Intl and US calls you make ($83.88 with BYOD) $356.59 + cost of Intl calls you make $699.14 + cost of Intl calls you make

*The rates of the plans shown above were gathered from the publicly available website of Vonage in April 2007.