Unlocked D-Link DVG-1402S Now Available With No Contracts or Monthly Fees

SIPphone, Inc., (www.sipphone.com) the VoIP service from MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, today announced the immediate availability of the D-Link Broadband Phone Service VoIP Router DVG-1402S.

D-Link's DVG-1402S is an industry milestone. Unlike adapters from other leading manufacturers such as Linksys, the DVG-1402S is not restricted to a particular VoIP service. While the DVG-1402S VoIP router works in seconds out of the box with the SIPphone's free service, the hardware can be configured for use with any SIP standards-based VoIP service, without fees or penalties to the customer.

In the VoIP industry, services like Vonage and AT&T pay manufacturers to lock otherwise standards-based hardware to their service. Payments come in many forms including price subsidies, rebates, order guarantees, and development funds. "Take a look at other VoIP adapters or routers on the shelf in the store and you will see the word 'free' sprinkled across every surface of the box, but this is misleading. The DVG-1402S is the only VoIP adapter or router from a major manufacturer you can use out of the box without paying monthly fees," says Michael Robertson, CEO of SIPphone.

While VoIP services try to make locked hardware the norm in VoIP market, restricted networking hardware is an anomaly. Modems, routers and switches have never been locked to a given internet service provider. "Can you imagine if AOL paid Dell to lock modems to their dialup service? It is unthinkable, and yet that is just what VoIP providers like Vonage are doing with voice adapters," says Robertson.

Locked hardware becomes even more problematic when VoIP services fail to disclose the customer's financial obligations to use the hardware. In September, SIPphone filed suit (www.sipphone.com/legal) against Vonage for misleading packaging and advertising on locked VoIP adapters from Linksys. In the suit, SIPphone demands Vonage properly label boxes and advertisements to list the mandatory fees and restrictions of their locked hardware. Now consumers have a choice. They can choose locked hardware with its hidden fees and penalties, or they can choose a feature rich, unlocked adapter like the D-Link 1402S.

The D-Link DVG-1402S enables standard phones to be used for voice calls over the internet while sharing the incoming internet connection across up to four PCs. Using existing broadband connection, the D-Link DVG-1402S connects directly to a cable or DSL modem in place of a traditional router using a sophisticated firewall protection. Connecting up to two regular phones to the D-Link DVG-1402S, users can connect to SIPphone's internet telephone service for free. Compatible with SIPphone's free call features such as in-network calling, caller ID, voicemail-to-email, conference calling, call hunting, SMS notification, call waiting, and call blocking, the D-Link DVG-1402S also acts like a router for a home or business network, providing room to connect up to four computers to share an Internet connection without affecting call quality.

The DVG-1402S fully supports SIPphone's leading auto-configuration standard, Plug-N-Dial (www.plugndial.com). With Plug-N-Dial, consumers get a working VoIP phone just seconds after plugging in the DVG-1402S to a regular telephone and a broadband connection.

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Michael Robertson is a successful author and regular contributor to http://www.voicemail-n-voice-mail.com. Innovative information and technology for the voicemail software, Internet services, toll-free and unified messaging industry.