After about 6 months of using Lingo, we have found the service a reliable alternative to traditional landlines.

My brother-in-law and wife are stationed in Germany and we use the service to talk to him weekly. My in-laws also use it to talk to them through lingo's call forward option which allows call from numbers to be routed to other numbers over the lingo network.

You can set it up to allow all calls to be forwarded, for the calls to ring here first then get forwarded after no answer.

The options are almost endless - almost, it would be nice if you could develop options for the forwarding such as press 1 for Chris in Germany, 2 for blah, 3 etc.....