bw1 wrote:Vonage has an app that's free and includes free calling - for $24.99 per month.
Right...Vonage admits in their pricing that no matter where a call comes from it costs the same to them.
Whether a call is originated from an Ooma hub, or from the iPhone app, they both get encrypted using the origination device and then passed to Ooma's servers. Ooma has fixed costs of their Internet pipe, and then incremental costs of the per minute fee to put the call through a regular phone line at the destination. No matter how the call originated, it's the same fees.
I can fully understand them charging a bit to cover app development, whether it's per minute, or for the app, but the combination of both when compared to alternatives like Skype on the iPhone is excessive to the point that I'm not going to pay it, and I can't imagine I'm the only one with this point of view.