Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jun 30 '00
Pros: Cheaper than a second phone line, get your messages while online.
Cons: It hasn't happened very many times, but a missed call from time to time.
Summary: Updated and revised on 6/19/01.
Callwave- The Internets Answering Machine!!!
Why pay $15 a month for a second phone line for your computer when you can have Callwave for free!!! This is what I ... read more
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Mar 04 '09
Pros: No pros. It was barely worth it when it was free.
Cons: These guys are slim. Crooked and a fraud.
Summary: These guys are a total rip off. They got me in with a free service ( NOT JUST A FREE TRIAL) then after a few years they started charging me $4/month. Way to much to pay, but I kept it because I had printed the number all over the place. Granted I don't ... read more
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Sep 11 '07
Pros: Absolutely essential if you depend on dialup
Cons: None (other than scary stories about cancellation problems)
Summary: I've had Callwave for years and it's been tremendously helpful around our house. We work for a university that provides free dialup internet access, but this would tie up our phone line for hours on end. Callwave solved that problem. When we signed ... read more
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Aug 03 '07
Pros: Easy to setup
Cons: Doesn't work, can't uninstall, horrible customer support
Summary: I decided to give Callwave's Visual Voicemail for cellphones a try. Boy am I sorry. I went through the activation process and everything correctly. Now when people call it goes to my old voicemail and the phone notifies me of a new message. When I ... read more
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Nov 21 '06
Pros: Works Part of the Time
Cons: Customer Service Sucks. Absolutely the worlds worst if you have a problem.
Summary: Paid for Caller ID feature but the last 2 months the caller ID's are not forwarded by Callwave. I have sent them approximately 15 emails to correct the problem but only receive automated responses telling me how important my problem is and how fast they ... read more
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May 04 '06
Pros: Cell Phone Screening
Virtual Number
SMS messages from Voicemail
Call Transfering.
Cons: Recently Callwave has outsourced its support operations to India.
Summary: I came upon callwave while looking for a virtual number for my cell phone. I have two callwave accounts one for my cell phone and one for my home. Both work as advertised and I think the service is FANTASTIC for the price. It cannot be beat. The lines ... read more
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Jul 27 '05
Pros: Callwave was great. It lets me know who is calling when I'm online.
Cons: Have not even been able to get through to a live person to cancel.
Summary: Like the previous few reviewers I have not been able to cancel the service, and fear I will be billed when I am trying to cut down on uneccessary expenses. I have had callwave for years now and it was wonderful. I basically used it so I could hear ... read more
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Aug 24 '03
Pros: It did function
Cons: Account was "mistakenly" cancelled by them.
Summary: When I tried Callwave Alert for the free trial, it was good. When I discontinued because the price ... read more
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Aug 17 '03
Pros: Very efficient, like to be able to decide how soon calls need to be returned.
Cons: Doesn't work with AOL guardian, if kids are on, won't answer.
Summary: I believe this is one of the best choices for internet answering service. The banner stays across t ... read more
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Jul 22 '03
Pros: Call Wave answers the call when you are on line
Cons: Call Wave causes freezes & program malfunctions on Windows ME
Summary: GOOD: Call Wave answers the call when I am on line so I have less arguments with family members. Cal ... read more
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May 03 '03
Pros: simple to set up, nonobtrusive
Cons: no longer free
Summary: I used Callwave for two years, and I was quite happy with it. I wasn't crazy about the fact that it was always displayed, but I realized this is how they kept the service free. And, to be honest, it's not a very big display, and you get used to it after ... read more
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Apr 21 '03
Pros: Cheap, works fine
Cons: Free--but only for a few months
Summary: Actually, I've signed up for Callwave twice--once a few years ago and again a few months ago. I signed on because it was free--aside from the call forwarding charge from the phone company (which you do NOT have to have Callwave do, just call the phone ... read more
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Apr 20 '03
Pros: I have nothing positive to say here.
Cons: Dangerous Uninstaller
Summary: Today I used the Call Wave uninstaller since the Call Wave program never had worked, and the uninstaller managed to uninstall 74% of the programs on my hard drive! I have now had to spend the last couple of hours trying to reinstall those programs. It ... read more
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Oct 15 '02
Pros: Better than nothing. No flash ads. The ugly thing CAN be moved off the screen.
Cons: Horrible fake "Hi _____ is using callwave..." voice. Is not free.
Summary: I am so sick of this program! Today 10-15-2002 I denounce the entire nonsense. I am so sick of programs that force you to upgrade. I have found several easy workarounds to this. For one thing I never agree to any license agreements, period (ever hear ... read more
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Jul 11 '02
Pros: Simple, affordable, some nice features added recently.
Cons: Nothing
Summary: Back in December of 1999 I was surfing the net for an Online Answering Machine that was affordable and was available in my area. I was checking the search engines and saw a link to Callwave the Internet Answering Machine; I was very interested so I gave ... read more
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Jun 08 '02
Pros: It's brainless to use
Cons: Tracking program, it's NOT FREE, constant endless banner ads
Summary: This a surfing habits information compiler too and they will bill you.
I used the service for several months "free" with the option to buy a no-ad version. Then they sent me an email discontinuing the free version--so I started paying for ... read more
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