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Comments on news posted 2003-11-11 13:57:21: VoIP is everywhere, wireless quality and coverage is improving, and broadband prices are dropping; is it time to ditch your home phone?. ..
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 | | Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Concrete condos no-no for cell phones I live in a concrete condo on the ocean and cell phones do not work in this building. So I will never get a cell phone. I don't want one anyhow. I am apalled at the rudeness of people who have them. I don't care to hear their stupid conversations in public and I would never want others to hear my conversations.
As for VOIP that is a long way away according to Time Warner Cable here. Plus, I like my landline. I have a corded speaker phone that I could not do without for clarity. My mother could not understand me when I used a cordless phone plus they rot on the ocean very fast. I have an excellent long distance plan. I would never want a cell phone because of the 911 issue also.
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macyh
Ex-Isp
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join:2001-04-24
Medina, OH
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| Lesson learned? Choice is good. Keep it that way. What all these comments mean is: It's very, very good to have more than one choice for the the voice and broadband services you need. Consumers are smart enough to select the providers, service they need and to shop for the rate they want to pay.
Regulators, legislatures and telco's want to eliminate your choice. The existance of all three is entirely based on no competition, no choice and hidden taxation thru regulation. State regulator would have made a mess out of wireless competition if the FCC had not stepped in and prevented it years ago. But now, with VoIP and broadband the telco's have another chance to persuade state bureaucrats to "protect consumers" by lobbying for more regualation and more taxation of both.
Don't allow state regulation of VoIP and broadband; it's the only way competition and choice will continue to exist.
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Macy Hallock Ex-APK Net, Inc. Cleveland, OH, recently sold
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| probertc
join:2005-01-06
Lawrenceville, GA
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