Vonage tops study of Net phone service

The overall quality of Internet phone service still lags behind traditional landlines, according to a study released Tuesday.

Keynote Systems' study, based on the quality of calls made with voice over Internet Protocol and with standard phone lines, found that Internet telephony has yet to reach the standards that consumers associate with traditional phone service.

The study tested calls from six providers: AT&T CallVantage, Packet 8, Primus Lingo, SkypeOut,Verizon Voicewing and Vonage.

Test calls between San Francisco and New York were placed from VoIP to standard telephone lines and vice versa; and between local loop VoIP to public switched telephone networks. Call quality over the "last mile" was also tested. A total of 163,000 calls were placed over five weeks in May and June, Internet performance monitor Keynote said.

The study evaluated service availability, daily outage time, average number of call attempts, dropped calls, audio delay, listening quality, audio delay consistency over time, and audio delay geographic uniformity. These factors were aggregated into reliability and audio clarity rankings, San Mateo, Calif.-based Keynote said.

Overall, Vonage ranked as the most reliable service provider, securing 80 points out of 100 points. But Keynote said it has to improve its performance in dropped calls.

AT&T's CallVantage had the best audio clarity, Keynote said, but needs to improve geographic variability on audio delay factor--a cause of call disruption. Overlapping sounds can confuse people and can result in missed information if someone is making a 911 call.

"VoIP reliability and audio clarity are important factors limiting the widespread adoption of VoIP in consumer markets," Dharmesh Thakker, senior product manager for service solutions at Keynote, said in a statement. "Consumers are unsure whether VoIP can live up to the dial-tone reliability and crystal-clear communication quality they have come to expect with traditional phone service over the years."

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VoIP FREE Service vs., paid VoIP.

VoIP FREE Service vs., paid VoIP.

When paying for something you should expect to get what you pay for needless to say the cell phone industry has done pretty well considering that they do still not have it right with poor quality and dropped lines consistently throughout the country and in some areas no service available at all.
The quality of Vonage VoIP is good but not worth what they are charging, AT&T and SkypeOut follows right behind in quality and should reduce their cost for their service just to be fair.
However I did find a better solution and actually a better quality in about 90% of my calling around the country on a consistent basis. As a matter of fact I hear from our military personnel overseas that using this FREE VoIP that not only do they save money " a ton of money" but they are also saying that the quality is much better than with any of the other providers they have used in the past.
With 15,000 downloads daily of this FREE virtual cell phone look alike, no wonder that these numbers are climbing by the minute. You can get your FREE VoIP virtual dialer from this website <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.callonmydime.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.callonmydime.com</a> and please do tell a friend. Let them know it is FREE, let them know the quality is better and just go ahead enjoying life knowing that you have a better system that is absolutely free and if for some odd reason if you would like to get rid of it, all you have to do is click one button and you are done. NO Spyware, NO Virus, NO cost to you, what could be better... this is great. Go get yours today from <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.callonmydime.com." target="_newWindow">http://www.callonmydime.com.</a>. enjoy.

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re: VoIP FREE Service

Ivan, so you are saying that a company that solely makes its revenue by displaying ads every 15 seconds has better call quality than mainstream players? A company that registers through godaddy? A company that does not list its executive team, business address, phone number, or any sort of contact information? That does not list its privacy policy? That does not explain anything about its network infrastructure? That offers no statistical data comparing its call quality to its competitors? Sounds great! Sign me up!

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Keith don't be so needy picking.

If you need all this information as you requested you will need to search a little!. GoDaddy first of all is a great company and I highly recommend it to everyone,not just for the price but for the help and service, they are just their when you need them 24/7.
I downloaded the free dialer many months ago to test it out and since then I must have told several thousand people about the service. Between the soldiers of ours overseas almost everyone are using this service from www.CallOnMyDime.com which actually are riding on the backbone of the Rockefeller Center in Santa Ana, California. They use a Dual 48 inch pipeline and that should do it for me when it comes to bandwidth. If you would like to know more about all the tech stuff and who actually own this service you will need to visit www.NTRSource.com or www.AdCalls.com/2086. AdCalls are just the product but you cant get it from them you must get it for free from guys like me that chooses to give it away for free to people I come in contact with.
So their you have it. All my secrets, well as they say "no more".
Just go ahead and download your own free virtual cell phone. You either like it or you don't and if you don't? who cares after all it was free. One little thing I do wanna throw in here... the quality is better than anything else I have been able to get for free. By the way close to two million people think the same way so I guess that is a good sign. "The World Is Calling... for FREE.