Broadband phone service for a daughter in Japan and her family in the USA
This is a hypothetical example of how broadband phone service helps connect family members across the world.
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Summary
A family in the USA gets broadband phone service to talk with a daughter on a study abroad program in Asia.
Broadband phone service meets a family's need
When a daughter moved to Japan for a year, her family in the USA realized they phone bill was going to be very high. They anticipated that the daughter would have high speed Internet access, because ADSL is common in Japan. Then they learned about broadband phone services. They signed themselves and their daughter up with the same broadband phone provider so that they would be able to call each other for free anytime.
Choosing a provider
They chose their provider based on a comparison like this one. After studying all the details, they signed up for iConnectHere because it had the cheapest plan at just $6.99 per month and worked well overseas. iConnectHere delivered adapters with free shipping to their home in the USA and to their daughter in Japan. On each side of the ocean, the parents and daughter opened the boxes, plugged in the adapters, attached their phones, and the service worked. They talked on the phone that day with a clear connection.
The benefits
Soon the family discovered the benefits of broadband phone calling.
- The daughter could call home and talk for any length of time with no worries about the rates.
- The service came with a free local phone number in the USA. Her close friends dial that local number and call her for free (she actually pays for the calls at the same super low rates as outgoing calls).
- As the family started exploring the features, they learned how to make 3 way conference calls and use the other included features.
They ended up saving a lot more money and joined a growing number of people worldwide doing the same thing.
Getting started
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