Indeed.. there is no $40 cancellation fee unless you fail to return their ATA.. then they charge you and it's yours... what you think those devices are free?
I'm pretty sure Vonage added that termination fee some fair while after they began offering "free" ATAs as an inducement to use their service.
I signed up in May 2002, and at that time there was no mention of a termination or disconnect fee in their TOS.
It wasn't until after a very lively cottage industry sprang up selling "cancelled account" units on Ebay that they retroactively added that charge.
But $40 for a ~$150 ATA was still a good deal for the grifters, and after continuing to take a beating on Ebay, Vonage finally inveighed upon Cisco to put the "nuclear option" password on the unit, which made it a brick if one didn't know the magic string.
An irony quickly followed: Cisco wasn't all too keen on doing that change; they were aware of the negative PR that would follow when they would be forced to tell people, "Nope, you have to just send it to a landfill." But within months of Cisco's reluctant accomodation, Vonage dropped them like a hot potato when Motorola walked in the door with an ATA that was .000000000001 cents cheaper per unit. Ha ha.
Vonage sucks, and if I could port that number I've had now for almost three years, I would drop them just like they did Cisco.
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