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Talk America brings you customized savings plans that include your complete local and long distance phone service for a low flat monthly rate.
Your savings plan will include:
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One low rate for complete phone service and dial-tone |
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Local and/or regional calling minutes |
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Selection of many features (call waiting, caller ID, etc) |
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Unlimited FREE member-to-member calling - anywhere |
In addition, receive world-class customer service, enhanced billing features, low rates and more! Hundreds of thousands of customers are saving today - find out how you can too!
Try our simple online evaluation tool to find the
Talk America plan tailored to your needs! |
Talk America Overview & History
| Talk America offers a bundle of local and long distance telephone services to residential and small business customers in the United States. We deliver value in the form of savings, simplicity and quality service to our customers. Local phone services include local dial tone, various local calling plans that include free member-to-member calling, and a variety of features such as caller identification, call waiting and three-way calling. Long distance phone services include traditional 1+ long distance, international and calling cards. We have developed proprietary integrated order processing, provisioning, billing, payment, collection, customer service and information systems. These proprietary systems, along with attractive wholesale pricing, enable us to offer savings through competitively priced service plans, high-quality service and simplicity through consolidated billing and responsive customer care. We use the unbundled network element platform of the incumbent local exchange companies network to provide local services and our nationwide network to provide long distance services.
Founded in 1989, we began as a provider of long distance phone service to residential and small business customers. By 1997, we completed construction of our own nationwide long distance network. In 2000, we expanded our product set to offer a bundle of local and long distance phone services to residential and small business customer and currently no longer actively market long distance only products. Our vision is to build a large, profitable consumer franchise, delivering value and superior service to our customers in a simple package. |
Callserve
enables telephone calls from your PC over the Internet
to anywhere in the World at the most competitive rates
available. Home users can save up to 85% on long distance
calls. Just download Callserve's free Internet Telephone
and follow the simple on-screen instructions.
With Callserve, you dial
numbers exactly as you would from a UK-based cellphone,
including the international dialling code from the UK
when needed. Most UK users will find it convenient to
use the dialling codes they're familiar with, especially
since the US services tend to assume you will use the
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When the Callserve software
loads, it puts a replica of a mobile phone on-screen,
and you dial by clicking on the numbers -- inconveniently,
it doesn't seem to accept keyboard input. Callserve doesn't
offer you the option of storing your PIN on disk, unlike
Net2Phone. There are a couple of extra 'keys' you won't
find on an ordinary mobile phone. One, bearing a '$' sign,
takes you to the Web pages where you can add funds to
your account. The other, adorned with a small 'i', accesses
the online help pages. The latter are pretty good as these
things go, but would be improved by better indexing and
internal linking.
Our testing with Callserve
went reasonably smoothly, although the sound quality suffered
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service. This isn't peculiar to Callserve: the communications
standard supported by Callserve and the other services
reviewed here, H.323, requires a number of ports to be
open on the user's computer. BT's NAT (Network Address
Translation) protection closes these off, and there is
no way for an individual user to open them.
This may be good security,
but it means that if people want to use popular services
like Internet phones or video conferencing, they'll need
to get the non-NAT service and install their own firewall.
Although this might seem shortsighted on BT's part, there's
no compelling reason for it to support a technology that,
after all, enables competition with its core telephone
call business
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