Virtual Vonage Phone Numbers let you set up lines in Western Europe

by Evan Blass, posted Jan 27th 2006 at 8:00AM

Look out world, because our foreign coverage is about to get slightly better thanks to Vonage's new Virtual Vonage Phone Numbers, which will allow our peeps in Western Europe to holla at us for the price of a local call. You heard that right, if we used Vonage we would be able to set up 1.888.ENGADGET-style numbers in Austria, France, Ireland, Italy, and Spain (what, no Germany? Netherlands? Luxembourg?) and get more tips and also add some more flavor to the voicemail podcasts. Sadly, we use Skype, landlines and cellular telephones (also with Skype) and not Vonage, so it seems that for now our overseas coverage will have to remain just heavy-to-annoying. Virtual Vonage, available in the US, Canada, and the UK, costs ten bucks-a-month in addition to regular Vonage fees.

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masmad @ Jan 27th 2006 8:14AM

Ehm, isn't SkypeIn exactly the same?

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Gil @ Jan 27th 2006 8:15AM

So how about we all just use Skype?

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Josh Wardell @ Jan 27th 2006 8:27AM

But Skype also lets you set up international phone numbers with SkypeIn.

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Havanahjoe @ Jan 27th 2006 9:21AM

Virtual Vonage is also available for Mexico

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LH @ Jan 27th 2006 9:46AM

Oh, you have such a new map. That must date back to the 19th century.

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Scott @ Jan 27th 2006 9:49AM

I'm a US citizen living in England and have been using a U.S. Vonage account with a "301" area code for the past year. I wasn't able to set up a UK Vonage account because I didn't have a UK issued credit card and it takes up to to two years (from what I was told) to establish credit. I decided to try a U.S. account and it's been working brilliantly ever since.

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BadBatz @ Jan 27th 2006 9:54AM

I was not aware that Vonage gives you the ability to travel back in time and offer virtual numbers in the XIX century Europe. I'm sure that the good folks in parts of Prussia and Austro-Hungarian Empire will be delighted. Sadly, the eastern part of Prussia and the Kongdom of Naples and Sicily seem to be left out...Bad Vonage.

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fabienne @ Jan 27th 2006 9:55AM

Those of us that NEED to call the engadget line just have broadvoice.
Bring your own PBX and unlimited calls to a bunch of you're-a-peon
countries' landline phones ROCK.

cheers,
fbz

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ignorant american @ Jan 27th 2006 10:05AM

cha cha, 1.888.ENGADGET is american style :)
western europe style would be without a 1 :)

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anetus @ Jan 27th 2006 10:40AM

Actually, company called Lingo have a lot better features since a year at least. You can set up phone numbers throughout cities in Europe, South America, even Japan I think, those numbers will be local for you clients.
You can't sleep then, though, because of all those time zones...

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Mark Strong @ Jan 27th 2006 10:42AM

Help please, since reachouts to Skype have been ignored. I want to call Russia with Skypeout. I bought $10 of credit to start the process. But, I get "Failed no Skypeout" everytime I try either of the numbers I have. Any pointers, please?
Thanks,

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Mantorp @ Jan 27th 2006 10:53AM

Lingo.com has offered this forever. They also offer unlimited calls to North America and Western Europe for a flat $20 per month. That's 5 less than Vonage plus you get Europe thrown in for free. Email me and I'll send you an invite that'll give you (and me) $25 off. mantorp at gmail.com

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Brad Rhoads @ Jan 27th 2006 11:59AM

How the QOS compare between Vonage & Lingo? The voice quality I'm getting from Vonage is fantastic. Although I am having trouble with router for regular Internet usage. I end up having to bounce the router way more than I did with my netgear router.

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rffmb @ Jan 27th 2006 12:12PM

Anyway calls from the UK to the US and most European landlines are �0.01 a minute with certain providors, with no fee nor minumum call charge. Its cheaper to call the US from the UK than to call local numbers now. Nice that my mobile phone company can still charge 75 times that rate without blushing.

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mok @ Jan 27th 2006 1:08PM

www.lingo.com has this technology a LONG time ago...

Come on Engadget! Say somethign we don't already use :)

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Ben G @ Jan 27th 2006 1:10PM

I dumped Verizon for Vonage to get rid of all those silly charges and taxes they wanted me to pay, but now Vonage does virtually the same with their $1 FET and $3 regulatory recovery fee. I know it's the government who force this but sheesh.
BTW, I pay $4.99 a month for my Vonage UK virtual number but seeing SkypeIn at 30 euros a year for the same thing makes me think that Vonage is charging a pretty penny for these numbers. If it was $10 a month I'd never do it.
Overall though, my landline monthly bill is now so low it's noise. The big ones I'm trying to lower are my cellphone and satellite TV.

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Jose @ Jan 27th 2006 2:30PM

I am guessing this is geared at people who want to call your "office" in England and you can pick up in USA...I know that the other way around works really simple. If you take your Vonage, Lingo, Packet8 or whomever VoIP service signed up in the US with a US number and ship the device to anywhere in the world, when someone in the US calls you you can pick up wherever the box is, and it's a simple local call. I use that set up to talk to my dad, I dial a Miami line, but he picks up in Honduras.

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sr @ Jan 27th 2006 4:29PM

#16 If your dad wants to call you using the box, does that also work?

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Pacey @ Jan 27th 2006 4:38PM

I love my vonage and I can say that it was a great benifit to be able to set up virtual numbers here, I can only imagine how much this would help if, say, you had family members over seas that you keep in touch with.

When I moved into the new house I had a "rigged" setup and I had issues w/ the router and my cable dropping. Since I got the whole setup in the house finalised, I havn't dropped a call or lost signal quality.

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Online Systems @ Jan 28th 2006 3:37AM

VoIP operator, BroadVoice, has been offering UK Virtual Numbers for just $1.95 each. So, if you wish to give Europeans - WHO MIGHT ACTUALLY SPEAK ENGLISH - a free way to reach you by phone in the USA they can do it for a lot less money.

And simply let the cheese-eating, surrender-monkey French pay the long distance charges to phone your UK number.

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Sanketh @ Jan 28th 2006 8:37PM

Good one, Informative

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carol @ Jan 29th 2006 2:14PM

Germany? Try Lingo we call our friends in Germany just as if they were next door. Once you go Lingo, you will never go back.

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