Originally Posted by themicah

You do not need an international plan. When you have a Voip service like Vonage, you can make a call from anywhere in the world as long as you have the equipment with you and can connect it to a fast enough, unrestricted internet connection. Vonage's servers don't care whether you're in London or Des Moines.

You only need an international plan if you make a lot of calls to other countries.

When mrsmicah lived in Israel, she took a Vonage box with her and hooked it up to her DSL modem at her apartment in Jerusalem, and it worked no differently than if it was hooked up to our cable modem in NYC. She had unlimited calling to the US, and we could call her in Jerusalem simply by dialing her regular NY number.