Aside from some misleading statements like "more than 90% of businesses have switched to VoIP" and that you get higher, "digital quality" sound, the pricing is totally absurd at $30.00.
I found no mention anywhere online fore the 90% claim. And if anything, VoIP can many time have latency issues which are rarely found in land-line connections, which are more reliable, btw.
Anyway, knowing that Matzav is no phone company, I set about finding out which company they are acting as affiliates. (Also to see if they offer a better price than Matzav.)
At my first try on the http://matzavphone.com website, I hit upon this gem: A link to another website for account information. Clicking that link take you to a page on www.myaccountcenter.net, which I correctly assumed was the page for the original provider.
(Interestingly, once you click the link above it creates a browser cookie which remembers that you're a Matzav customer even if you navigate to another page in the website.)
A Google search on that domain told me that many others do the same like Matzav and that the providor does a good job hiding their identity.
Now I set about finding the owner for that domain. A quick whois checkup yielded no results. An address in Portugal which has no results in Google.
Stuck? Not yet. I went along to check which IP address the website was hosted on and whoa!, look what I found!
CustName: Net2Phone Inc.
Address: 298 State St.
City: Hackensack
StateProv: NJ
PostalCode: 07601
Country: US
RegDate: 2000-08-12
Updated: 2000-08-12We know know that the provider is called Net2Phone. A quick Google search reveals the following.
They are now a subsidiary of IDT. And they have a website. Duh.
Interestingly, I wonder what you make of some user reviews on this sham of a company. Aha.
What did they say? Digital Quality. Yeah right.
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