I really have to say that I had the opposite experience. My Lingo, dicey for the first 6 months a couple of years ago, has been rock solid for the past 18 months since I got the newer boxes (USTARCOM).
The voice quality was not as good as Vonage unless you select the higher quality option on your personal features Web page. It is set to work well over DSL but a cable connection will sound good with the higher quality option. However, it will also work over a dial-up modem to a dialup ISP (my cable router's backup route thru my lifeline...a business FAX line I wanted to keep)! I have always been able to get a Canadian tech of very high quality when I pressed the agent. I have waited anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes for an agent, however, but don't know recently since I have had no problems. Yes, there have been glitches, but very few. I get many more with SKYPE and "all circuits are busy" is frequent with my office SBC (oops, AT&T&T&T&T). On the whole, I wouldn't run from Lingo. The number porting anomolies and error responses may not be all their doing. But, maybe it is. . . . j o n a t h a n -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of KyWiFi LLC Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:12 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] VoIP/PBX Gateway appliance Hi Scriv, We tried Lingo but could not get it to work reliably and their voice quality was horrible when it did work. Their support is overseas so expect to be treated like a number instead of a person. LNP's are hard to get approved and people calling our ported number often got a busy signal when we were not on the phone. Even if we were on the phone, they should not have received a busy signal because we their service is suppose to include call waiting. During the first week or two after our number was ported, some callers received a "This number has been disconnected" message when they called us. My advice is to turn and run. Sincerely, Shannon D. Denniston, Co-Founder KyWiFi, LLC - Mt. Sterling, Kentucky http://www.KyWiFi.com http://www.KyWiFiVoice.com Phone: 859.274.4033 A Broadband Phone & Internet Provider ============================== Wireless Broadband, Local Calling and UNLIMITED Long Distance only $69! No Taxes, No Regulatory Fees, No Hassles FREE Site Survey: http://www.KyWiFi.com ============================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] VoIP/PBX Gateway appliance Primus tells me they are more than a VOIP company and that they do make money. They impressed me in my dealings with them. Can you share more about your information about Primus? I have a big interest in knowing anything I can about them right now. Thanks, Scriv Peter R. wrote: > You haven't seen it yet, because Lingo is not profitable yet. > Primus owns Lingo and Primus is basically an International VOIP company. > > Like so many VOIP Providers, they are still trying to figure out how > to make a profit. > > Delta3 (which is the backend for VZ's VoiceWing) made $9.1M in revenue > in 4Q05 and just $22k in income. > > Vonage has a customer acquisition cost that is 20 times their MRC. > > Regards, > > Peter > > > Jonathan Schmidt wrote: > >> I've been personally delighted with two years of Lingo giving me >> unlimited USA/Canada/EUROPE calling on 7 lines each for $19.95/month >> and an unusually rich set of features (like e-mailing me compressed WAV >> files of all incoming voicemails, etc.). >> >> Now, that's retail w/box and support. >> >> I've taken the box on trips and routed it through my laptop Ethernet >> while >> the laptop is on a V.32 dialup and it works but sounds kind of like a >> cell >> phone but having my local number with me in Europe and having unlimited >> free calls throughout Europe from Europe or Eastern Europe for ZERO >> additional cost is kinda cool. >> >> It's SIP but they keep promising a soft phone for the line, like >> Vonaga, but >> haven't seen it yet. >> >> . . . j o n a t h a n > > -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
