NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. is coaxing customers to try its phone-and-computer call management service, iobi Home, by offering the service free for three months.
Iobi allows users to route calls from their home phone to any number, such as a cellular phone, and to send text messages free of charge from their computers. Other features include selective forwarding or blocking of certain calls, on-screen mapping of an incoming caller’s address prior to call pick-up, scheduling of call forwarding, and the ability to forward voice mail as e-mail. Verizon noted the service can be managed through a Web-enabled computer or phone.
The free trial is only available to Verizon customers with a Verizon Freedom or Freedom Extra home calling service. Iobi normally costs $8 a month; Verizon Freedom customers can receive the service for $5 per month after the three-month trial period.
“Iobi is such a new concept, such a major leap forward, that the only way customers can fully appreciate all of the advantages the service has to offer is to try it for themselves,” said Margo Howell, product manager for iobi Home. “We’re confident that once they do, customers will not only be enthusiastic users of the service, they will become advocates as well and encourage other customers to use it.”
