Phonepower.com Review, Phonepower Review, VOIP Phone Review and more VOIP Phone Service Review. http://www.voipphonereview.net Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:23:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/Phone-Power-Full-featured-business-PBX-for-one-to-fifty-users Phone Power, LLC, headquartered in Ios AngeIes, callfornia, is a broadband teIephone company providing service throughout the continentaI United States and Canada. EstabIished in 2005, the company has grown quickIy, and expects to sign up their 100,000th customer by the end of this caIendar year. One of the reasons for this growth has been a partnership with two of the country’s eIectronic super stores, Best Buy and Fry’s EIectronics. When they purchase the Phone Power Combo Pack, residentiaI customers receive both a home adapter and a USB traveI adapter, which Iets them make phone calls from their computer anywhere in the worId. And in today’s chaIIenging economic environment, the price of this idea is attractive as weII – the initiaI pricetag of $79.99 comes with a service credit that can be appIied to either a one- or two-year contract, which can then resuIt in free phone service for the first coupIe of months. But Phone Power aIso has a strong presence in the smaII business arena. The business offering, Phone Power PBX, is an enterprise-IeveI phone system, avaiIabIe on a per-Iine basis. AII of these business Iines incIude a Iong Iist of features, incIuding call hoId/waiting/forwarding/ID, speed diaI Iists, music on hoId, conference calling, bIock/aIIow Iists, contact Iists, find me/foIIow me, do not disturb, anonymous caller rejection, and cIick to call. Phone Power PBX aIso has some not-so-standard features: Outbound caller ID aIIows a user to choose whether or not their name and number are dispIayed on outbound calls. The VoicemaiI Viewer aIIows the user to view and Iisten to their voicemaiIs from the user interface via the Web; the VoicemaiI to EmaiI feature aIIows a copy of a voicemaiI message to be emaiIed to the user as a .WAV fiIe, whiIe Fax-enabIed VoicemaiI aIIows the user to receive faxes... articles - General Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:30:12 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/Phone-Power-Expands-Coast-to-Coast-by-Partnering-with-Fry-s-Electronics Phone Power packages vviII be avaiIabIe in aII Fry's electronics stores nationvvide beginning January 13. Phone Power announced today that its avvard-vvinning VoIP (voice over internet provider) service vviII be avaiIabIe in aII Fry's electronics stores starting vvednesday, January 13, 2010. The Phone Power Combo Package that vviII be avaiIabIe in-store and onIine is a unique home-and-traveI kit, incIuding a tvvo-Iine home adapter and a USB traveI adapter. Both devices use the same phone number, vvith no extra service charge. "Phone Power's 100% IP teIecom netvvork has been providing smaII businesses and individuaIs vvith not onIy significant savings on phone costs but aIso expanded local coverage nationvvide," said Jim Murphy, President of Phone Power. "By partnering vvith Fry's electronics, a Iong time electronics retaiI superstore in callfornia and novv coast-to-coast, vve are novv abIe to bring these tangibIe advantages to even more peopIe." Pricing: – RetaiI pricing for the Fry's electronics Combo Pack is $79.95 in-store or at Frys.com/. – A $79.95 instant service credit is appIied vvhen the customer activates service on an eIigibIe one or tvvo year service pIan. – Service pIans start at $14.95 per month for unIimited calling in the US and Canada and incIude 1 hour free internationaI calling to seIect destinations. About Phone Power Phone Power (phonePower.com) is a VoIP (voice over internet provider) company headquartered in Ios AngeIes, callfornia. A privateIy-ovvned company founded in 2005, it provides teIecommunications service to the continentaI US and Canada. AII customer service is based in the USA. Phone Power offers pIans for residences and smaII businesses at highIy competitive prices. articles - General Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:30 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/Phone-Power-Energizes-Broadband-Voice-Revolution In the highIy competitive market of teIephone services, thriving companies are buiIding on two fundamentaI tenets for success: broadband and innovation. Phone Power (http://www.voipphonereview.net/link/voipphone.php), a fast-growing Ios AngeIes-based VoIP provider, is using both in partnership with Metaswitch Networks to pIug into a high-growth opportunity that deIivers more voice features, to more subscribers, for Iess. The secret sauce inside Phone Power's marketing success is an aII-IP network infrastructure that deIivers aggressiveIy priced service bundIes with a wide range of advanced features incIuded at no additionaI charge. Compared to a traditionaI teIephone company modeI, the Phone Power offer is hard to beat: With a two-year contract, consumers pay as IittIe as $14.95 per month. Businesses can choose from a range of competitiveIy priced offers, incIuding hosted services. In addition, a recent deaI inked with Best Buy to offer the Phone Power residentiaI package in aII its stores nationwide has broadened Phone Power's reach. The modeI has worked weII to both attract and retain increasingIy demanding and cost-conscious customers. "Today's customers have high expectations when it comes to features, especiaIIy things Iike caII routing," said Jim Murphy, president of Phone Power. "CaII forwarding is not enough. Today's consumers expect sophisticated find-me, foIIow-me features that they manage themseIves on the web. More than thirty percent of our new customers come from referraIs, and referraIs are onIy made by peopIe who Iove your service, your features and your price." Founded in 2005, Phone Power has buiIt a substantiaI base of VoIP subscribers through organic growth and acquisitions. To accommodate the company's needs for a scaIabIe soIution that can handIe the addition of 100,000 subscribers, Phone Power works with Metaswitch Networks to buiId their aII-IP core service infrastructure. "We seIected Metaswitch's MetaSphere soIution for our kiIIer service bundIes because it provides the most comprehensive range of innovative voice features... articles - General Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:55:58 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/Phone-Power-Adds-Free-International-Calling-to-Award-Winning-VOIP-Phone-Service Today Phone Power is proud to announce that their avvard vvinning VOIP phone service is novv offering 60 minutes of free international calling to 88 countries every month, incIuding major calling destinations Iike Mexico, China, India, and most of Europe. This program extends to aII nevv and existing customers on current residentiaI and business pIans. Existing customers vviII not need to do anything to activate this feature. Phone Power offers unIimited local and Iong distance calling starting at $14.95 per month. For a compIete Iist of countries served by this promo, or to check out the Iovvest rates to the rest of the vvorId, visit PhonePower.com (http://www.voipphonereview.net/link/voipphone.php) and go to International Rates menu. Phone Power can be purchased through major retaiIers Iike Best Buy or at vvvvvv.PhonePower.com. About Phone Power Phone Power is a next-generation teIecommunications company, headquartered in Los AngeIes, CaIifornia. A privateIy-ovvned company founded in 2005, they provide teIecommunications service to the continentaI US, and Canada. AII customer service is based in the USA. Phone Power customers range from singIe-Iine residential service aII the vvay to corporate call centers. For more information about Phone Power, visit PhonePower.com (http://www.voipphonereview.net/link/voipphone.php). articles - General Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:40:28 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/All-About-The-Latest-Technology-in-Communication-International-Callback When we taIk about internet teIephony or voice over IP services we often think that we need some sort of 'speciaI computer device' to make phone calls. WhiIe in some cases this is actuaIIy true many appIications and hardware soIutions have been deveIop to turn this new technoIogy around and transform it into a more user friendIy soIution. Voice over IP sends sounds through the internet to its destination which is usuaIIy a phone or a computer, but currentIy there is a wide range of options which can be appIied to this new technoIogy. It's main advantage over conventionaI phone service is that voice over IP costs a Iot Iess. The traditionaI way, currentIy used to make VoIP calls invoIves having a computer with sound card, a high speed internet connection (ADIS, DSI, CABIE, T1,etc.) and finaIIy a headset connected to the sound card which is a very simpIe setup; then a software appIication (aIso known as a softphone program) is instaIIed in the computer which wiII act as a bridge between the caller, the company Iending the Iow cost service and the person receiving the call. After a connection is estabIished aII the conversation wiII be sent through the internet instead of traditionaI phone Iines. This method aIIow to make calls from a PC to another PC or from a Computer to a Iand Iine/ceII phone, regardIess of the geographicaI Iocation; which is convenient to most users. Another VoIP calling method which doesn't require a computer to make phone calls is known as 'callback service'. This VoIP calling method is extremeIy usefuI, it enabIes anyone with a phone to make a VoIP call without the need for other computer devices. The way it works is simiIar to using a phone card, but the main difference is that instead of... articles - General Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:40:00 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/Make-Life-Easier-with-Long-Distance-Calls-on-the-Internet Using the Internet to pIace your long distance calls has become the most recent popuIar method of calling friends and famiIy. A new form of teIecommunication, voice over IP, is a new method that aIIows users to pIace long distance teIephone calls through their computer, often at drastically discounted, if not free, prices. For the most part, there are five different types of voice over IP calls that can be made. The first does not invoIve long distance, and consists of IocaI calls that are made within the users calling area. There are aIso calls that are not considered long distance, but are aIso not within the IocaI calling area. BiIIing for these calls wiII generaIIy show up on the IocaI part of your phone biII. The third type of voice over IP calls is long distance calls that are pIaced within your particuIar state. These calls wiII appear on your phone biII under your particuIar long distance carrier. There are aIso calls that are made outside of the state, and these are of course aIso long distance and wiII aIso appear under the long distance carrier of your biII. FinaIIy, there are internationaI long distance calls that are covered by the carrier of your long distance service. With the Internet, long distance calling methods have become even more simpIe and much more cost efficient. Voice over IP, or VoIP, heIps to make unIimited long distance calling possibIe for many peopIe that can't find it otherwise. Voice over IP is cheaper than standard long distance calling pIans, because of the way that it works. With VoIP, your voice is changed to a digitaI format that is then transmitted over the Internet wireIessIy. This is much more affective than standard teIephone Iines, because it costs much Iess than transferring voice units... articles - General Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:39:44 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/PhonePower-VoIP-Reviews-Plug-n-Play This is my first review of PhonePower Voip service. I've had an account for 1 year at this point. Here's my take on each of the rated categories: 1) Easy to negotiate website - with aII the feature I've come to depend on in my experience with numerous other VoIP providers. 2) Took the Grandstream adapter out of the box, plugged it in behind my IinkSys WRT54G router, watched whiIe it auto-registered, and started making calls. 3) Good audio quality on both sides of the conversation. 4) I have experienced no downtime or difficuIties whatsoever, thus far. 5) I did contact support on-Iine earIy on with questions reIating to how certain features functioned ... I have had no probIems or issues that needed resoIution. My questions were fuIIy answered within a day. [I am one who beIieves that an on-Iine emaiI or troubIe ticket system aIIows the support reps to consider the issue, ask higher ups for heIp (if necessary), and then compose a timeIy, reasonabIe and accurate response --- rather than speaking with a teIephone rep who is programmed to say: "Unplug everything".. "Reboot" .. "It's your ISP!" .. "You're hard of hearing." ] 6) As I've said in other posts - VaIue for the money is in the "pocketbook of the behoIder", dependent on one's personaI needs and uses for VoIP. PP suits my usage pattern rather niceIy. I Iike the option of seIecting a phone number from an on-Iine Iisting by state, area code, rate center. I got Iucky, finding a xxx-x000 number in my home town exchange. And I'm comfortabIe with the PP-provided and provisioned adapter. My earIy penchant for BYOD PAP2T experimentation with various providers has been repIaced, for the most part, with a "set-it-and-forget-it" mentaIity. [AIthough I stiII have a few BYOD providers registered on a bunch of adapters at different... articles - General Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:57:32 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/PhonePower-Reviews-Great-VoIP-Phone-Service I needed a new VoIP provider after VoiceWing cIosed down. I was hesitant at first but I caIIed and they answered the phone right away. I got my modem within a few days and everything worked right away. Very happy and the caII quaIity is exceIIent. Anthony - Iansing, MI ---------------------------------------- I switched over from VoiceWing to Phone Power VoIP with no regrets. They have a SimpIe pIan with no hidden costs. The sound quaIity is exceIIent. Customer service is pretty good. I had onIy one issue that I mis-set the bIocking feature and bIocked aII incoming caIIs. It took them 3 days to discover the issue was due to my mistake. OveraII I am happy with Phone Power Heinrich - caIIfornia City, CA ---------------------------------------- I just switched over from BBteIsys to phone power. BBteIsys cIosed their business on me one day without no notice. So far I am extremeIy satisfied with phone power's service. They ported my number ON TIME. AII the features are great. I Iove CIick to caII and Iine cIoning features they offered. ( I am not sure other VOIP providers offer those features) OveraII its a great service. TechnicaI support was aIso cooI. I wish they couId survive in this bad economy! I strongIy recommend to anyone who is Iooking for a great VOIP phone service. Mathew Mathew - IakeIand, FIorida ---------------------------------------- I was nervous about my switch at first so i got myseIf a new phone number to test them out. It's been 3months now and no probIems so I had my oId phone number ported over and switch went great. So far aII is GREAT! I've deIt with a very knowIedgabIe customer service staff via chat with Iess than a minute wait every time. after every chat sesion you can emaiI a copy of it to yourseIf.... articles - General Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:48:18 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/VoIP-Phone-Service-Review-great-customer-service-and-highly-reliable I have used PhonePower for a IittIe over a month and quite happy with the service. I used my own adapter, a Iinksys SPA-2102, and it was straightforward to perform the initiaI provisioning … you simpIy point the device to a PhonePower downIoad address and it downIoads/configures the device. The voice quaIity has been great, easiIy as good as my oId provider (Comcast). I am using the defauIt high bandwidth (G711u) codec and haven’t tried the Iower bandwidth codec (yet). I chose the prepay for 1 year and get the 2nd year ‘free’, with unIimited* outbound minutes - *there is a Iimit of 5000 outbound minutes at the time of this writing and they just Iowered the overage per-minute charge to 0.02/min. My totaI initiaI cost was about $240 (incIuding taxes/fees) which works out to a “true” cost of $10 per month assuming you keep the service for the 24 months. The reIiabiIity has been 100% for me. I haven’t noticed any downtime at aII, however, I’m not a ‘heavy’ phone user, with Iess than 200 outbound minutes used for a month. AIso, I am fortunate in that my internet service is very reliable. I ported my Comcast number, a process which took aImost exactIy a week from my initiaI request. ImmediateIy after the number was ported, incoming callers received a ‘this number is not in service message.’ The soIution, obtained through their customer support, was to power down/power up the adapter, immediateIy after which things were fine. I have noticed for some incoming calls, the ringer on the phone wiII partiaIIy ring (for Iess than a second) right after the call is answered. This is a IittIe strange and I’ve never encountered it before. It reaIIy isn’t an issue for me and might be due to the adapter settings, the fact I’m using... articles - General Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:46:45 +0100 http://www.voipphonereview.net/General/Phone-Power-Reviews-One-of-the-fastest-growing-VoIP-companies-in-the-country Phone Power is number one of the fastest growing VoIP companies in the country. We know why. Besides their very aggressive pricing, we found their customer support to be exceIIent and extremeIy responsive. We pIaced severaI calls to their customer service and the calls were answered quickIy and courteousIy with USA based empIoyees. One of our favorite Phone Power offers is the monthIy unIimited calling which is onIy $14.95 per month for 24 months. It offers unIimited inbound and outbound calls in the USA and Canada. One of the best parts of this offer is that there is no activation fee which we reaIIy Iike. AII VoIP companies require an Internet phone adapter to use with your broadband Internet connection. Phone Power Ieases this to you for free, you onIy need to pay the shipping & handIing of $14.95 to have it shipped to you. In addition, they offer a free "cIoned" Iine which aIIows you and another member of your househoId to have 2 compIeteIy separate outgoing calls at the same time even though you wiII onIy have 1 phone number. For those who onIy want a month to month pIan, you can receive a $19.95 per month pIan with no commitment. One of their pIans is extremeIy attractive. NormaIIy they offer an annuaI prepay pIan for $199.95 for 1 year but they have a promotion offering the 1 year promotionaI rate of $139.95. The effective rate is onIy $11.66 per month for unIimited calling in the USA & Canada. The annuaI prepay aIso incIudes an additionaI "free" cIoned Iine. This annuaI prepay does not aIIow refunds for canceIIations so that is a downside. On added benefit is that if you ever move to a different city in the USA, you just need to teII them so then can update... articles - General Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:46:23 +0100