Business VoIP Phone, Lingo Service

Do not use Lingo or other VoIP Phone services for your business!

Lingo has been unable to provide quality phone service for my business over

the last three years. I have had to call their tech assist (in India)

monthly and sometimes weekly to "tune" the IP router and their settings to

reduce echoing and noisy connections. Their technical solutions are never

effective long term and the problems invariably return.

I am stuck with Lingo because the phone numbers they provided my business

are NOT portable to another provider, I've tried going to Vontage and they

could not transfer my numbers. Having invested in letterhead, brochures,

business cards and numerous web directories with the "lingo" numbers it

would be financially prohibitive to change them now.

A huge hidden cost the VoIP provider such as Lingo do not disclose is the

cost of having your phone number distributed to the WEB Directories such as

SmartPages.com, YellowPages.com, YellowBook.com, etc is that some do not

allow you to ad your listing manuals as they only accept the directory

listings distributed by directory service companies like Axicom.com. "Lingo

does not submit customers to any Directory Listings. If you require your

name to be listed you may contact directories directly.", Lingo Customer

Care. The expense of listing your Business phone number in on-line

directories and yellow pages will be many times the potential savings of

your lousy VoIP service.