CallCentric



Sound Quality
4.183675
Reliability
4.20408
Customer Service
4.10204
Features
4.2449
Price
4.285715
Overall
4.204082

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Availability: United States
Founded in: 2003

"At the end of the day, Callcentirc allowed me to cut my phone bills in half and provided me with a number of additional features that I never had. A+"

by EastofEden

CallCentric offers VoIP-based broadband Phone services for residential and business users. Their services include all of the essential features and much more.

Consider the IP Freedom phone service. As long as you are calling another CallCentric customer, with the proper installed software (or an IP-adapted phone), the call is absolutely, 100% free. The only downside is that you can’t call anyone on a landline.

CallCentric has three different paid calling plans. The first, Pay Per Call, is an extension of the IP Freedom calling plan. You simply credit a small amount to your account and you can call anywhere in world, at low VoIP rates. That’s it. You only pay for what you use. Calls within the CallCentric network are still free.

Second and third are the North America Unlimited Plan and the World Select Plan. Both are for a low monthly fee and both offer unlimited calls: North America Unlimited to North America and World Select to 35 countries around the globe. All CallCentric’s plans (even IP Freedom) have wonderful features included, like voicemail, browser management, and more.

North America Unlimited

For unlimited calls in the US and Canada, choose CallCentric's North America Unlimited plan. For just $19.95 per month (without a contract), this residential VoIP service not only allows you to receive unlimited calling between the two countries, but you also still receive CallCentric's competitive international rates.

Key Features:

  • Unlimited local and long distance
  • Low international rates
  • 30 standard features

Basic Info

  • Monthly Fees: $19.95
  • Cancellation Fees: $0.00
  • Setup Fees: $0.00
  • Long Distance: $0.00/min
  • Shipping: $0.00
  • Other Fees: N/A

Available Features

  • Call Blocking
  • Conference Calling
  • Fax Capabilities
  • Faxes to Email
  • Call Forwarding
  • Call Hold
  • Call Transfer
  • Music on Hold
  • Caller ID with Name
  • Call Waiting Disable *70
  • Call Waiting ID
  • Distinctive Ring
  • Do Not Disturb
  • Muti Lind User
  • Multiple Users
  • Area Code Selection
  • Extra Number (Virtual Numbers)
  • Toll Free Numbers
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device, SIP)
  • Call Messaging
  • Enhanced Voice Mail
  • Voice Mails Emailed to You

NOTE: International rates displayed are based on calls made from US.

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mongofrye's picture

mongofrye
Member since: Sep 2009
xxx.xxx.126.58
Points: 0

Simply the Best!

Posted on: Sep 03, 2009
Pros
Cost! Quality! Features!
Cons
Setting up the Service.

I have tried VOIP services and non have compared to the price and quality i have gotten from callcentric.

If you set up your system properly, you will have a great, reliable alternative to an expensive land line.

i have had this for 2 years now and have spent less than $120 bucks on this phone service.

If you want to just plug in your phone and go or have a customer service rep hold your hand through the process, this may not be for you. but once it is set up, you will have wonderful service and no other service compares in features. There online support is very fast and thorough in their answers, no cut and paste responses. they actually give you an answer you can use.

Sound Quality
4
Reliability
4
Features
4
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
4.4

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parsec
Member since: Aug 2009
xxx.xxx.168.219
Points: 0

Great service!

Posted on: Aug 26, 2009
Pros
good service fair price to what they provide stable quality tech support with knowledge and institution fast
Cons
it will be nice to have a better fax ability it took me some time sort it out on my spa3102 but I did it and I new to all this

excellent interface they have done a good job, sound is quite good calling overseas is must for me and I have been getting a quality connection to several countries some issues some times calling cell #'s
tech support is good since I don't have to wait on the phone to get what I want

Sound Quality
4
Reliability
5
Features
4
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
4.6

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webafella
Member since: Aug 2009
xxx.xxx.93.180
Points: 0

With caution

Posted on: Aug 14, 2009
Pros
Good customer service
Cons
Line quality,connection

Started out well but after a few days, I could not hear the other party or get through. This went on and I kept on topping up my account until I decided to leave them. I would not recommend them but I will say that they have good customer service and support. Their prices are also reasonable.

Sound Quality
2
Reliability
2
Features
3
Customer Service
3
Price
3
Overall
2.6

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DeMan
Member since: Jul 2009
xxx.xxx.82.115
Points: 0

Very Happy with Call Centric

Posted on: Jul 28, 2009
Pros
Price, features, quality of customer support, reliability, pay-per-call plan.
Cons
Slow number porting.

I had read a lot about VoIP services before deciding to try CallCentric. My technical abilities are limited but I bought one of their supported devices from Amazon at a much lower price than they were going for on Ebay and took a chance. Setup was not difficult tough a number of changes had to be made, including a code string with customer support provided to enable 7 digit local calling. I kept Verizon for a few months but found CallCentric so reliable that I dropped landlines entirely. I use their pay-per-call plan and the only recurring fees are for my ported home phone # and E911. My average monthly bill totals about $6. My house is old and most rooms are wired for phone, so I connected the adapter to my junction box in the basement (instructions were on line and easy to follow). Now all of the phones in the house (11) wired and cordless work well with the system. A UPS protects me from power outages (none yet). Tech support by email has been precise and excellent. Sound quality is very good except when calling cell phones when it can be spotty at times. Call features are very good and easily accessed as desired from the on line "dashboard". My only complaint is that it took many weeks to port my home number to CallCentric. Other than that, the experience has been very good and I have no plans to ever change.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
4
Customer Service
5
Price
4
Overall
4.6

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cwc3d
Member since: Jun 2009
xxx.xxx.196.120
Points: 1

Great service!

Posted on: Jul 04, 2009
Pros
Great web-site (call treatments are cool, it's like a rules wizard for your phone). Good international rates. Reliable service. Customer service is very responsive.
Cons
Can require a little more technical know-how to set-up. Rate for toll free (800 numbers) calls are annoying.

I love Callcentric! The web-site is great, the calls are clear and the pricing is very competitive. Callcentric is a BYOD, which is also nice since you can configure your device how you want it. The biggest minus to Callcentric, is that it can require a higher degree of technical skill/knowledge depending on what you want to do. For example, if you want to be able to do local 7 digit dialing, you need to configure your phone adapter to do this (which can be complicated on some adapters) since Callcentric wants all numbers to be the full country/area code format.

Also, don't like their 800 rates. They charge for 800 number calls at .0088 cents/min. If they would drop that charge, then this service would be perfect.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
4
Customer Service
4
Price
4
Overall
4.4

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jac5219
Member since: Mar 2009
xxx.xxx.148.67
Points: 0

Callcentric & Linksys SPA3102 - a great combination.

Posted on: Mar 01, 2009
Pros

Inexpensive:  Callcentric provides the possibility of totally free SIP based communications when 911 services are not required.  SIP to SIP calls are free.  Inbound calls  to your Callcentric ATA over landlines are done using DID numbers that can be purchased for as little at  $1.95 / mth on the IP Freedom plan, providing your family and friends with a local number they can use to reach you anywhere in the world that has an Internet connection.

Support:  Compared to the Vonage "voice based" customer service, CallCentric's email based responses are superior, as I don't have to wait in a call queue for 20 minutes only to be handed off to a customer service drone that does nothing but read from a script. 

Quality:  The 29a codec is supported and provides good voice quality.

Availability:  In the two years I've been using them their network has only been unavailble once for a period of more than a few hours.

Payment:  PayPal makes a great way to do business with this vendor.  You have the option of providing a recurring funding source without providing a credit card number.

Cons

I wouldn't complain if they got around to adding "Selective Call Blocking" to their feature set.

Callcentric is a BYOD (bring your own device) VoIP provider.  The SPA3102 has a large technical following for this very capable ATA.  Linksys has been acquired by Cisco, so the documentation for the device is better than ever.  With both FXA and FXS ports on one device it is like a mini-PBX, and at a price of around $60 it is a bargain!  So you plug a cordless phone base into one port, the Line  port goes to the wall jack (if you have local CO dialtone or to a PBX) and the Ethernet goes to your ISP.  The feature set allows you to automatically forward calls to other numbers like cell phones and to restrict use based on passwords.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
4
Features
5
Customer Service
4
Price
5
Overall
4.6

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EastOfEden
Member since: Feb 2009
xxx.xxx.211.122
Points: 0

Rich feature set and great sound quality makes this one of the best providers

Posted on: Feb 21, 2009
Pros

Professional Interface Design

Very Rich Customizable Feature Set (call treatements are great)

Clear Sound Quality

Highly Customizable

 

Cons

Customer service works through email / trouble tickets and so you are not able to get an immediate answer if needed, although they are responsive.

Cannot pick you own phone numbers other than area codes

 I have just spent the last month reviewing several VOIP providers.  I even signed up for many of them only to find that they were not reliable or properly disclosed their billing practices and so I had to cancel them.  I was just about to give up and then I came across callcentric.  This one is by far the most reliable and professional designs I have seen.  Many of the Voip providers have very buggy interfaces and it was very frustrating configuring them.   Callcentric is very intutive with a number of great features.  Their call treatment feature allows you to even schedule the way you handle incomming calls.  You can even have someone send you a fax and callcentric will email it to you.   They have definately thought through the service offering and its simply first class.  Just about the only con is that they don't let you pick your own phone numbers and so you may end up having to port yours over if you have a better one.  Customer service is done by email and so you cannot get immediate results but in the few instances I needed customer service, they were very responsive.   At the end of the day, Callcentirc allowed me to cut my phone bills in half and provided me with a number of additional features that I never had.  A+

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
4
Price
5
Overall
4.8

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Eyespye Security Solutions
Member since: Jan 2009
xxx.xxx.153.112
Points: 0

Great Service So Far

Posted on: Jan 07, 2009
Pros

--Very low price

--Great call quality

--Instant access once we bought our initial $5 prepaid minutes

--Calling card option

--(haven't had to use their service)

Cons

--Don't have as many features as Vonage, but who cares!

We are a video surveillance/POS Integration company with multiple lines.  We are paying about $260/month for 4 lines, so we started using our FiOS connection for voice calls with Callcentric.So far, the only issues we've had has been misconfiguration on our side using 3CX as our internal PBX and of course our wireless headsets, but that's not Callcentric's fault.We have asked over 50 customers about the quality of the call and 100% have indicated it's no different than it was before using conventional land line.Prices are $0.0198 per minute and our bill this month has been less than $48, plus now we have an auto-attendant service along with extensions, music on hold and lots of other features.I am somewhat disappointed that Callcentric's features aren't as rich as some other companies such as Voicemail to Text/Email, but for now, we can live with $210/month more in our pockets than the phone company's!!!Our broadband service is 5Mbps downstream, 2Mbps upstream with us doing constant video surveillance monitoring for our customers in addtion to slightly higher than normal Internet traffic.I'll post additional updates as we use the service more.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
5

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jfrank
Member since: Jul 2008
xxx.xxx.142.170
Points: 0

Callcentric is great. Best Bar None.

Posted on: Jul 26, 2008
Pros

 Price, customer service, ease of use, no per month charge other than for a phone number ($1.95) and E911 recovery ($2.37), call quality

Cons

 No Phone based customer service

 Callcentric does a great job.  One of the few providers that does not charge a monthly fee for phone service.  They do have a $2.37 emergency 911 recovery fee per month for all users that will require calling outside of their other users.  So, no it is not really free per month.  However for roughly $4.50 per month you can have a phone number and be able to call pretty much anywhere in the world for $.02 per minute.  Most other providers charge you $20 per month just for the service.  Thus for the price difference of $15.50 you can talk for 775 minutes per month.  This is great.  If you don't use the service you don't pay any more than the $4.50 per month.  Call quality is great over the FIOS network.  You also get all of the features that the phone company makes you pay for (eg. call forwarding, caller ID etc).  Billing is easy and customer service is great via email.  No, they don't have a phone based customer service, but they are very responsive to email.  The website is easy to use also.  I can't say enough great things about their service.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
4
Price
5
Overall
4.8

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mst3k
Member since: May 2008
xxx.xxx.205.71
Points: 0

Liking Callcentric

Posted on: May 23, 2008
Pros
Good support, cheap, reliable
Cons
No phone support

Started using callcentric about 4.5 months ago; and I really like them. I had a little trouble getting it setup with my adapter, but callcentric support quickly helped me with the problems I was having and since then everything has been great. Callcentric hasn't had any outages I've noticed and all calls have sounded good. I decided to ditch my landline and replace it with callcentric and I've very satisfied with the results and the large savings every month. I do wish they would provide phone support, but considering my experience with their support so far it hasn't proved to be a problem.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
4
Customer Service
4
Price
5
Overall
4.6

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