CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO | TWC will be # 1
I give it a few months and TWC will have more then vonage. I used it and it works better for sure |
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jchambers106
join:2004-12-10
Kansas City, MO | I use it every day and its as reliable as pots for less money |
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comcrash2006
@comcast.net | No surprise since some Cable providers block 3rd party Voip
...services. |
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ropeguru
Premium
join:2001-01-25
Bridgeport, WV
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Re: TWC will be # 1
said by CO_Chris  :I give it a few months and TWC will have more then vonage. I used it and it works better for sure Well, when you own the network and control the packet flow, of course it is going to work better.
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MemphisPCGuy
Senior Systems Engineer
Premium
join:2004-05-09
Memphis, TN
 ·Comcast
| TWC + E911 + Battery Backup for the Win!
TWC's Digital Phone service really is nice. With e911 and battery backup attached to the MTA. What's not to love?
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | said by MemphisPCGuy :... What's not to love? how about the price? |
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anon1001
@63.239.x.x
| reply to jchambers106
Re: TWC will be # 1
How do you get that it's cheaper?
Vonage is $14.99 and $24.99 all inclusive.
TWC digital phone is $39.99 and has many less features. Tack on another $2.99 for voicemail.
Everyone's experience will be different for VOIP providers but I've had two problems with Vonage in almost three years. One was the voicemail indicator light not going off properly (my router) and the other was voicemail from email not getting delivered for about 3 days (vonage problem). TWC has offered me a great service in RR which leads me to no problems with Vonage as my VOIP so I commend both companies. To say that TWC digital phone is cheaper is just ridiculous. |
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hyperon
Premium
join:2006-02-04
Bastrop, TX | reply to CO_Chris
True, I pay half of what I used to pay with SBC not including the free US and CA long distance! |
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA
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Re: TWC + E911 + Battery Backup for the Win!
Price was right for me. Then again, I was switching from Verizon. I went from a $92 Analog Cable + RoadRunner bill and a $61 Verizon bill ($21 of which were various "fees"), to about $150 for Digital Cable, a DVR, an extra receiver box, and digital phone. (So I'm basically paying the same I was before, but I'm getting Digital Cable and the DVR "for free.")
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gheezer
Compooters R Us
Premium
join:2002-12-20
Henrietta, NY | reply to comcrash2006
Re: No surprise since some Cable providers block 3rd party Voip
I love a good conspiracy theory. |
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Rothan Tik
Premium
join:2000-11-07
Danvers, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| FTTH
Well (if) the fiber market ever gets enough penetration, those companies should be able to compete in the same ways with VoIP and other services down that line.
Who knows though, by the time that happens, other companies like TWC might have the strangle-hold on those markets. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| reply to anon1001
Re: TWC will be # 1
said by anon1001 :
How do you get that it's cheaper?
Vonage is $14.99 and $24.99 all inclusive.
TWC digital phone is $39.99 and has many less features. Tack on another $2.99 for voicemail.
Everyone's experience will be different for VOIP providers but I've had two problems with Vonage in almost three years. One was the voicemail indicator light not going off properly (my router) and the other was voicemail from email not getting delivered for about 3 days (vonage problem). TWC has offered me a great service in RR which leads me to no problems with Vonage as my VOIP so I commend both companies. To say that TWC digital phone is cheaper is just ridiculous.
Neither person said it was cheaper than Vonage. They said it was cheaper than POTS.
I personally had nothing but trouble with Vonage over RR. Dropped calls, I can hear people but they couldn't hear me. I even had my ATA disconnected for 2 months and Vonage never once called or sent an email saying, "Hey, did you know your ATA hasn't communicated with us in 2 months?", they happily kept billing me of course.
Of course, I had a few problems with TW's own digital phone service too.
I'm with Nuvio now and the quality is much better than Vonage. |
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Coalminer999
@riddellsales.com
| reply to Jason Levine
Re: TWC + E911 + Battery Backup for the Win!
I have used Directv for a long time (about 70 a month), along with Road Runner (45 a month), and Packet8 (23 a month) , for a total cost of 138, I got a flyer in the mail from Time Warner the other day, to get dish users to switch, for 99.95 a month, you get digital cable, with a DVR, a second box, one premium channel, Road Runner and digital phone. And the price is guaranteed for 18 months. I could not pass that one up!!!!! |
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NPGMBR
join:2001-03-28
Arlington, VA
| Still Not Sold On VOIP
I doubt I'll ever get VOIP. During a recent power outage it was clear that having television and internet services from the same company was just not a good idea. And although, I am strictly cell phone now, I don't see any reason to get VOIP.
If for some reason I do it won't be from the same company I get my internet service from. I just don't want to have to rely on one company to get information during an emergency. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ | reply to comcrash2006
Re: No surprise since some Cable providers block 3rd party Voip
said by comcrash2006 :
...services.
No one is blocking 3rd party VOIP. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
|  VOIP will eventually be dominated by telcos and cable
Given their marketing power, financial depth, and ability to guarantee better quality, the cable companies and eventually the telcos will dominate the market. The only niche I see for the 3rd party VOIP providers will be for those who spend a ton of minutes calling overseas from computer to computer with no connections to POTS systems on either end. Cable and telcos won't be interested in that market.
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
·T-Mobile US
| reply to Matt
Re: TWC will be # 1
said by Matt :said by anon1001 :
How do you get that it's cheaper?
Vonage is $14.99 and $24.99 all inclusive.
TWC digital phone is $39.99 and has many less features. Tack on another $2.99 for voicemail.
Everyone's experience will be different for VOIP providers but I've had two problems with Vonage in almost three years. One was the voicemail indicator light not going off properly (my router) and the other was voicemail from email not getting delivered for about 3 days (vonage problem). TWC has offered me a great service in RR which leads me to no problems with Vonage as my VOIP so I commend both companies. To say that TWC digital phone is cheaper is just ridiculous.
Neither person said it was cheaper than Vonage. They said it was cheaper than POTS. I personally had nothing but trouble with Vonage over RR. Dropped calls, I can hear people but they couldn't hear me. I even had my ATA disconnected for 2 months and Vonage never once called or sent an email saying, "Hey, did you know your ATA hasn't communicated with us in 2 months?", they happily kept billing me of course. Of course, I had a few problems with TW's own digital phone service too. I'm with Nuvio now and the quality is much better than Vonage. I have zero problem with my $20 Packet 8 service (apart from their retarded billing department). |
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jdracer47
join:2005-10-16
Auburn, PA | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: VOIP will eventually be dominated by telcos and cable
I think everyone needs to remember that Vonage hasn't operated in the black yet, they have lost money every year. The low low prices can't stay low forever if the investors start punishing them. |
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voipdreams
| Wake up from the dream already
Verizon needs to wake up from the dream and embrace VOIP sooner rather than later, otherwise that red light they think is fiber could be the Telcom's BIGGEST bankrupcy to date, making MCI's bankrupcy look like a piggy bank that got smashed over a slotted sewer drain.
Remind them again, how many cableco VOIP adds happened in Q4, 2005? |
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clubfoot
join:2006-02-11
New York, NY
| I'll stick with Vonage
 I've had it for 2 years with Verizon 3mb down-768up DSL and haven't had a single problem. Cable? eww... Glad I'm surrounded by it in williamsburg brooklyn but yet can't get it. forget cable get direct-tv.:p |
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