My experience with Voipgo has been a pretty horrible nightmare. At first I was willing to
deal with some occasional hassles in return for an extremely competitive rate. It is worth
noting however that with this service you will not be able to check voice mail from any
location other then your phone with the voipgo service.
Initial problems were that the line dropped frequently while I was on the phone and the
calls would be cut. The sound quality varies. Sometimes a single 5 minute phone call would
get cut 3-4 times. Often I would get up in the morning to find I had no dial tone. Or I
would go to make a call and find I had a fast busy signal.
I live in a very central neighborhood of Montreal and have a fast trouble free cable
internet connection, so the problem is definitely on their end.
A few months ago, I would have rated customer service at a medium. They were pretty
reasonable to work with despite the fact that getting the phone rehabilitated involved
super long "walk throughs" on online chat to make configuration changes. Often however
online chat was offline. I would go sometimes several days without phone service.
More recently they sent me a new device. They never responded to inquiries about whether I
would have to pay for the return shipping of the old device however. I still actually have
no idea if my account is going to be reimbursed for that.
Today I awoke again to a non-working phone. Last night it sounded like something had
happened to my account while I had been away because my voice mail was configured strangely
(though last night, the phone had worked.) At 10:40 AM I logged onto online chat and was
informed I had a 20 minute wait. Since then my position in the queue has been reset
something like 4 times and I have been disconnected at least once. This has happened
before, but never has it cost me close to 2 hours. It is currently 12:20 and I am still
waiting for a response. In that time I've written 4 emails to emergency and sent 1 through
their website.
Here is what I find really ignorant about voipgo's approach:
If they are having a systems emergency, why not disseminate a message saying as much? Why
not give us an ET for fixing the problem?
If they are going to leave me on hold for 2 hours, why not say please call back this afternoon?
I would like to add also that the rep I worked with 2 weeks ago demanded that I share the
entire contents of my computer in order to fix the problem. When I said that I was not
interested in that, the person told me that they could then not help. I had to really call
them out on their attitude, which the rep admitted "sucked" (unprofessional language
doesn't bother me by itself, but the person actually indicated that they were laughing via
chat) in order to proceed with configuration changes in the usual way.
I think this company really has problems. What you get for $20 plus a month is a phone that
may or may not work to varying degrees and hours of waiting for online chat. You also have
to deal with some very difficult people who have no trouble cutting you off or resetting
the chat. (Several times I was also cut off while working with a rep.) If you actually
need a phone and don't like to think too hard about it, definitely DO NOT sign up with them.
PS. While I was writing this, I noticed that online chat was re-set twice and now has a new
1300 second wait time. One of those happened while I was staring at the online chat screen.
(It is currently 12:35PM.)
I got VOIPGO because I recently moved cross country and made many calls back home that
were costing me a bundle. Now that I have Voipgo those charges are over with. I have to be
honest though...I have had two calls that got dropped, but I'm pretty sure it was my
internet connection and not the service.
I started with the monthly plan just to try it out and see how this whole phone over the
internet thing worked. I was quite skeptical in the beginning and did not expect much.
Lucky for me I gave it a shot... The first two months were great!!! I loved not only the
customer service and the price, but the connection is like using any other phone. I really
enjoy this company and have recommended them to my entire family.
Voipgo responds to email requests for customer service as if it was chat during reg hours.
I have been on board now for about 4 1/2 months and the quality of service has been much
better than I had initially expected. There are, however, some odd occurrences
every now & again... but NOT usually serious. Downtime has been about 15mins
all together this whole time.
Hey everyone!
I signed up for their monthly and was up and running in no time (brought my own device).
Great price for service for their monthly plan. I think I will sign up for the yearly and
save even more. Service is really reliable.
I even took it to Europe last month when I went for business and it worked great. I was
able to call back home and everyone was able to call me for no charge.
Definitely would recommend Voipgo!
Cheers!
Kudos to
VoIP GO.
I would say that they are the better of the growing pack. I'm into IT so I usually try to
find out a how VoIP's run their networks, and VoIP Go have by far been the most
knowledgeable of them all. I was talking to a sales rep. who wasn't educated in the field
and we were able to have a interesting conversation. Try calling EarthLink's SENIOR
MANAGEMENT and they wouldn't be able to tell you what servers they run. Maybe I was lucky,
but I've talked to others and they all know the stuff. There is a sense of mismanagement
though, I spent 30 minutes with him on the phone just talking about network structures,
even though he was very knowledgeable I can assume that his managers wouldn't be happy with
all the calls he missed while talking with me. In a way its a plus since they are helpful,
but I wouldn't wanna be the guy waiting. I ported my number, tisk tisk there was a $25 fee,
but I guess it was worth the "investment", it took them 2 weeks so it wasn't too bad.
EarthLink took almost 2 months. Generally speaking I am happy with the service and consider
this money well spent...or saved - whichever is better.
overall a score of 91% which is very good if compared to others just wanted to add that
this is the only company that charges you the exact price that's listed. I signed up for
$17.95 monthly and that's exactly what I'm being charged. I was with Vonage before and the plan was for 24.99 but how my bills always came out to
just over 32 buxs and its not like I did any long distance calling.
Hello fellow Voip Go-ers. Before I start I want to make clear that I will be comparing Voip
Go to Primus (Lingo), Vonage and Bell Canada.
Ease of ordering rating: 5/5 - It was about midnight when I decided to try another
provider. Their offices were closed but chat was opened and they person answered all my
questions promptly and even gave a few suggestions (they were obviously not busy because we
got side-tracked and started talking about "hacking" ATA's and DVD's) He or she told me
that if I ordered online I would have my account by the morning. So I signed up, website
was easy to navigate by the way. I woke up for work at 9:00 and all the information was in
my email, with instructions and everything. I was too anxious to wait before i got back
from work so I input the credentials into my Linksys and it worked without a problem.
Lingo: it took them about 5 days not including the weekend in between.
Vonage: same story 4-5 days with a weekend in between.
Bell: after credit checks I think it was about 2 weeks.
Ease of Set-up: 5/5 - I sort of already covered this. I had my own device so all I needed
was the credentials. They did however give you links to their website and even have
attachments in the email on how to work the process.
Lingo: same story
Vonage: had to work a little "magic" but it wasnt too bad either.
Bell: they had to bring a technician to make it work.
Features: 4/5 - The only reason why I didn't give a 5/5 is because they don't have call
transfer.
Lingo: I don't even want to mention, half of the settings didn't even work.
Vonage: they say 30 feature or something, but when it really comes to it, there's really
only that 10 main ones that everyone else has. I just wouldn't consider a "Vonage Forum", or
"Unlimited Local Calling" a feature, if the plan is called unlimited local - how would that
be considered a feature.
Bell: I only had 3 features, didn't even bother paying 6 bux extra per month for call transfer.
Sound Quality: 5/5 - Like they say in the FAQ, at best its like a regular phone, at worst
its like a cell phone.
Lingo: no comment. I'm still fighting my charge back with them.
Vonage: for a multimillion dollar company and at that price I'm sure they can do better.
Bell: you cant compare with PSTN lines.
Reliability: 5/5 - I haven't had any down time yet. I use it as my primary phone now and I
have yet to hear no dial tone.
Lingo: I wish I heard a dial tone.
Vonage: they have their days. Mostly good though.
Bell: you cant compare to PSTN, unless paying $60.00 per month is ok.
Customer Service: 4/5 - their hours of operations are a little inconvenient. Shortened
hours on the weekends. Email and chat all seem to be pretty reliable though. One very
important thing though, they don't have a call center in Bangladesh or India.
Lingo: you could get to someone at most times, but good luck waiting 2 hours on the phone.
Vonage: they pick up right away, but so what if something that should take 10 minutes takes
me 40 minutes to do because of communications issues. I'm not racist or anything, but if
you're going to be my customer service rep.... learn the language!!!
Bell: they aren't too bad, once again though for a price of $60.00 per month what would you
expect.
Value for Money: 5/5 - if someone can find me anybody cheaper, I'll let you have my wife
for the weekend (just kidding). I'm on the one time fee payment deal. It's $149.99 for
twelve months!!! That's 12.50 a month, which means 0.40 cents a day. I got two lines one for
the kids and wife.
Lingo: not bad, but not worth it.
Vonage: after fees it came to that $30-32 a month.
Bell: $60 bux.
I just want to say that these are my views, and may not necessarily be your experience.
I have been using VoIP GO service for over Ten months and the service is great. Their
customer service is very good, helpful and quick to respond. I had my questions answered in
the middle of the night and they worked with me to fulfill my requests. I even had senior
management responding to my inquiries and explaining to help me understand. I felt my
requests and inquiries were dealt with care.
Good customer service, has cheap Virtual Numbers, yearly lower price plan, no setup fee,
BYOD capable.
ITS ALL GOOD.
I’ve been with VoIPGo for over a year.
In the beginning they were amazing, everything you could want from any service. As they
progressed they had some issues but nothing too bad. After sunrocket closed down I wasn’t
able to get on the phone with them forever. In the last few weeks they have done great
improvements. I guess I was considered a complainer so they switched me to some new
equipment. Since then it has been a very smooth ride for me. They also included a new
billing platform where you can check all your invoices. They are my first VoIP company but
I am satisfied enough not to go look for anybody new.
I like Voipgo, they've done good even though they haven't done the greatest with customer service. The service works great, they're quick to the fix when something major goes down,
and that's what I call a good phone service.
Customer Service is horrible !! We have experienced dropped calls, no service, and we can't
get anyone to speak with us about these issues. Customer service is NOT available 24/7.
That is a lie. Cannot recommend - and sorry we did for our parents. They have all had the
same above issues. STAY AWAY FROM VOIPGO.COM