Today, my own private revolution has started.
Well, not really. I just ordered my WAG54GP2 Wireless ADSL2 VoIP Gateway.
It’s a little expensive, without much change from $200.
But, with the WorldXChange Xnet Fusion plan, we will be saving about $50 a month on telecommunications.
In addition, I will be bringing the office phone for DocScan onto the second “virtual line”. How much for this? $7.95 a month!!!
That’s going to be a saving of a further $180 a month!
Even with the penalties for closing down the TelstraClear phones before their contract ends, we will be saving close to $230 a month on current telecommunications so it makes it worth the termination fee.
The only issue I have with the service is that they consider any household that has “2 virtual lines” to be a business, so all calls will be charged at 5 cents a minute.
But as we live in Orewa, all calls are already charged as toll calls to Auckland! So we will save money there as well.
Good bye Telecom and TelstraClear. I wish I could say I will miss you, but you have both been overcharging me for years, and I have had enough!
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