Vonage Must Die

My hatred of Vonage...

Well mostly it's my hatred of Vonage commercials. They seem to be ubiquitous these days. A commercial break doesn't seem to go by without that pink and khaki clad bland inoffensive woman with the plastic looking page boy haircut come on and start being all smarmy about how Vonage is so much more awesome than the phone company. Vonage has also made me hate "Woo Hoo" by The 5.6.7.8's...both through constant repetition and through association with Vonage...

Not only do these commecials annoy the begeezus out of me but they also strike me as a trifle dishonest. They tout a lower price than the phone company, but...the fact their service requires a broadband Internet connection is mentioned in passing almost as an after thought. So...the price of Vonage really includes the cost of high speed Internet access...and if you're getting a bundle or package deal from your phone company chances are you're getting as good of a deal or better than deal than Vonage...and then there's the fine print about fees and such. Of course, there's also things like Internet outages, computer problems, and the like to deal with...

And really, when was the last time you had a problem with your phone service? Home phone service not cell. Considering the scale on which they operate, the phone company does a pretty good job.

Now, I've really got nothing against Vonage or the nice lady in the commercial. But shoving their commercials in my face every 2 minutes is unlikely to cause me or any other thinking member of society to suddenly reconsider which phone service they have...all it will do is brew up a frothing hell broth of vitriol which I will unleash on the first unlucky person in meatspace who happens to mention they actually have Vonage. But like unicorns, pixies, and mermaids, I may never actually get to meet a Vonage customer.