5000 free phone lines from Orcon ?

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Q. Looking at their phone charges, it is $44.95 a month for the basic phone service, $59.95 per month for a few extras, and $40 more per month if you want unlimited national AND international calls to 30 destinations, with a one hour cap! This all on top of your Internet charges. Meanwhile, you can go to 2Talk, and get a VoIP account with unlimited calls to 40 international destinations, more features, and no idiotic call length caps, for $30 per month. Sure, you need to use your Internet connection for this, but given the amount due to Telecom after the unbundling is only about $20 per month per account, how the hell can Orcon be justifying $99.95 for a comparable phone service?

A. You still need say a DSL Broadband Connection and a Phone line to use your VOIP connection. Remember these prices Orcon are offering are before naked DSL/LLU has come into affect for commercial use and before they offer VOIP so prices are coming down in the future. I am looking purely at the cost of your phone services by themsevles, not the special offer. The phone service with that offer is only free for 12 months, so thereafter normal charges will apply. Also, the calls are a maximum of one hour, which means more charges for the user if they exceed the limits. Ignoring the cost of the line, Orcon charges $15 per month for a few extra phone features, $20 per month for unlimited (time limited!) national calls, and $20 per month for unlimited (time limited!) international calls (to 30 destinations!). If you want them all, that is $45 on EXTRA services that have nothing to do with line rental. If you compare that to 2Talk, where for a TOTAL of $30 per month, you get many more phone features, AND uncapped (not time limited) national, AND international (not time limited, to 40 destinations), then it shows how over-priced Orcon really is. I don't make many calls, so I get 500 minutes of calling (national or international) for a total of $15 per month. Local calls are of course free and don't count towards this. All true, but you are talking about a VOIP service compared to a PSTN service which really cannot be compared at the moment. Your power goes off , no phone unless you add on your end a UPS. 111 calls? Its a best effort service. You are limited to your DSL or whatever you run it over which may or not be good.+ other factors. If you are with IHUG for example you may pay $41 for phone line, $30 for broadband 1 plan, + your $15 for 2talk500 via 2talk for voip ($86) (or why not just use IHUG for the phone calls to reduce the base cost by $15?) Compared to phoneline,BB,phone service @ ORCON for $79.95 and you get alot more data for internet use (20G compared to 1G), and your phone is not affected by downloading fast. If you want to compare the single costs of the products, yes 2talk is cheaper for the phone service part of it, but as I said it is comparing a PSTN vs a VOIP solution.

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