Finally, we got all the results from our VOIP Provider of the Year 2008 Polls. There were multiple categories in which these VOIP Provider battled out against their close competitors. Read the full report.
We had multiple categories for VOIP Provider of the Year 2008. Around 1000 voters voted on some of the best VOIP Providers and chose the best in each category.
Lets analyse the results. There are some very shocking results.
1) Free International Call Providers: Over 517 users voted for this category.
Winner of Free International Call Provider in 2008: PokeTalk.
PokeTalk won this category with 167 votes, but it was a close finish with 160 votes for Mediaring, making it a very tough competitor to Poketalk. Surprisingly, Betamax lagged behind with barely 72 votes. Another indication that people are most likely fed up with their policies and billing issues.
2)Cheap International Call Provider: No surprises here. Localphone totally washed away all competitors. I guess its time for other VOIP Providers to start looking at Localphone as their leader and learn from them. As I always said, Localphone is my current most favorite VOIP Provider.
Total 268 votes were registered. Localphone got 174 and the closest competitor was Betmax with 47 votes.See the huge difference. again betamax loosing on because of their policies. Surprisingly Rebtel and Mediaring didnt get many votes.
3)Residential Phone Service Provider: Again, Two fairly new companies dominated over the veterans here. Lingo and PhonePower got same number of votes, Vonage lagged behind. There was a tie between Lingo and PhonePower. We highly recommend PhonePower(Read PhonePower Reviews), since its the cheapest residential phone service provider in USA today.
4) Best SIP Softphones in 2008: This was one off Poll, to see the interest amongst users for SIP Softphones. As we said Xlite is still extremely popular. Xlite got over 46 votes from the total of 80, clearly showing that it dominates this market.
If anyone wants detailed reports of this poll, please contact me on ut(dot)godmode@gmail.com. The results from this poll were exciting and i hope they give good indication to VOIP companies on how they are doing and where they need to work on. Hopefully we see a great 2009 for VOIP. Wish you all a very happy new year!
Friday, January 2, 2009
VOIP Provider of the Year 2008 Winners Declared
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5 comments:
But...doesn't Poketalk have rates to india? I don't see them at all!
PhonePower is out to lunch on their international rates!
Also, I am surprised you did not include the best of them all, in terms of price and service, Nymgo. Their low rates seem to be a well-kept secret!
I don't think Poketalk deserve any winning, but I think I know what happened.
First of all, Vinay has dedicated 2 posts about this service. It's very unusual to find here 2 posts about the same service, all the more so if there was no DRAMATIC developement.
The second post about poketalk was TOTALLY unnesecery to my opinion, considering the minor changes they did in the service, and comparing to many unpublished developements other services had done.
While the heavy question-marks on why they deserved such big coverage will probably remain unexplained, this blog ignored some other much more 'silent' services which are better than poketalk .
Take Qttel.com for example. They offer unlimited numbers of calls to over 50 destinations, no sign-up required and without any advertising.
Poketalk offer less than TWO(!!) 10-minutes calls per day (only 50 calls per month to be clear), to 60 destinations, and moreover they require sign-up and massively advertise (pop-up windows).
Most of these 2 services destinations are overlapping, and considered the cheapest available in Voip cost terms.
You can make the comparison yourself.
The problem here was the list. We could only chose a single service from a given list, but without an option to chose the finalists ourselves....
I thinks the big (unjustly for me) coverage about poketalk played a role with the votes here (eventually the readers are the voters..) together the peculiar lack of other good 2008's new services
Thanks for your comments. Poketalk didnt receive any special attention from my side. There are many providers i have blogged multiple times. Take an example of localphone or mediaring. Just do a search and you will find numerous post on them. Tringme is again one of the highly blogged service.
The poll was totally driven by users. I will take a QQtel.com and put down my review very soon. Thanks for your comments and criticism.
I dont think Poketalk receive any special attention.Its very strange for me!.
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