I missed this piece from Om Malik, who, among other experiences while in India, shares his experiences of using Vonage over his cell phone.  I also missed the fact that he was in India!  Next time Om, lets catch up for a coffee and some gupshup !

He says : 

"I had installed XTen Lite on my Powerbook and coupled it with a Vonage service. I had been using that service for a couple of weeks in San Francisco, but when I came to India, I decided to try it out over the ìalmost 3Gî data connection I have been using to check my email and post blog entries. I wasnít too sure about the quality of the service for the connection speeds sometime drop down to about 50 kilobits per second. Anyway I wanted to check my voice mails in San Francisco, and dialed out - and before i knew I was pressing the right buttons, scanning my messages.  Next-up, I called a friend of mine in New York. 20 minute conversation over a data connection. Fat chance the cellphone company got to see any part of the revenues from that call. It was a few pennies for Vonage, and a quarter or so for the data connection for 20 minutes. As an aside, it costs about $0.60 cents to call back to the US from India. Times 20, it is about $12. Savings! Savings! (I cannot wait for the EDGE/UMTS/EVDO/EVDV/Whatever to roll out world wide. I think that would be the end of distance.)"

I  use my Reliance CDMA phone primarily for its really great data services.  And i use Skype over my cellphone.  And most often, i've had pretty good clarity when talking to clients and friends in the UK and the US.

What i like about it too, is that it gives me amazing mobility - have made calls from airports, auto-rickshaws and cabs too. And i can be heard over all the din.

No charge as well - except the data charges which are fairly nominal.

You might want to try it out next time you're here Om ! 

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