joe01880
join:2007-10-26
Wakefield, MA | Why get it
If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? |
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UofMiamiGrad
Premium
join:2001-02-03
Great Neck, NY | Pricing & TOS
I posted this in the FIOS Forum last month. That link goes to my post containing the PDF of the TOS with pricing in the TOS.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| AT&T is hardly embracing VoIP
quote:
It looks like both AT&T and Verizon are ready to really embrace VoIP, something they'd steered away from for fear of cannibalizing already dying landline businesses.
1. AT&T scrapped Call Vantage
2. AT&T has deployed Uverse Voice in a few of its Uverse markets where POTS exists.
Here in Santa Clarita (suburb of Los Angeles), Uverse has been available since May 2007, however, VoIP product from AT&T is not available, and the local stores do not know if/when it will be available. |
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keshavrs
join:2003-12-19
Wilmington, DE | unsure...
i'm unsure if this is convincing enough to switch from my landline as i already have fios. i just don't see the appeal. |
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bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Will they dump Voicewing now?
I have had Voicewing for 2 or 3 years now and love it. I got Voicewing at the same time as FIOS. I believe VZ does not own Voicewing so does that mean that they will dump Voicewing?
I have no intentions of paying Verizon's prices, I saw $40 a month mentioned somewhere in this thread and their web site mentions per minute charges "in and out of network".
Maybe Verizon could spend a few $$'s of their profit and get a faster web site. Their FIOS and Voicewing sites are the slowest I have seen since I had dial up. |
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the tribble
join:2008-09-10
New York, NY | I'll stick to vonage
I've had them here in nyc for 6 years without any hassles and only 27$ with tax. |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | reply to joe01880
Re: Why get it
all that extra VALUE! think of the time saved with BUNDLING! |
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Pv8man
join:2008-07-24
Hammond, IN | Future opening for streaming Video phone over VOIP?
I bet you any money that verizon is eventually going to start advertising VOIP Video phone.
If not, it sounds like a good idea, considering they defiantly have the capacity to supply the demands of the future. |
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almahix
Allegro ma non troppo
join:1999-10-18
Camarillo, CA
·Verizon FIOS
| Verizon's funky pricing models
I have FIOS triple freedom just to get the bundle discount. That includes POTS but I don't use it because I prefer my VOIP service's features which I've had since 2004. (If Verizon had an internet/tv only bundle when I signed up, I would selected that, but the price of the triple freedom bundle vs the two services ala carte made the decision natural.) I would be willing to drop my VOIP in favor of Vz digital voice if it is priced competitively, but now that Vz has the flex bundle (without POTS), that plus my exisitng VOIP costs less than triple freedom or the projected FIOS bundle with voip, internet, and tv. When my contract is up, whoever has the best price for the three services I want gets my business. I don't care if it is one provider or two. Could be three for all I care! |
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jt4
@comcast.net
| verizons viop is alittle different then say vonage viop. vonage voip signal does not go throght vonages network. it uses public internet. digital voice service such like comcast verizon uverse goes throght the provider own network. so they have more comtrol over call quility. does alarm systems work on vonage no. but they do with several other digital voice service with other providers. |
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Hajman
join:2001-12-17
Phoenixville, PA
| reply to joe01880
Re: Why get it
said by joe01880  :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Answer: VOIP features (like simultaneous ring) that are not available to landline customers. If Verizon is able to deliver the quality and reliability of landline services, VOIP features and bundled pricing that is the same or less than their current bundled pricing, digital voice will be superior to landline service. |
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meh37
@verizon.net
| Total cost?
Given that it's from "the phone company", they can be expected to continue charging all applicable fees and taxes they currently charge--"applicable" as in "all"--over and above the "list" price. Yep, VoIP ain't what it used to be [about]: cheap calling to/from anywhere.
I already "leverage" my broadband connection for VoIP, so I really don't need to pay an additional $45, $50, or more for the pleasure of getting the same or similar from Verizon. If they want to make telco phone service relevant again, then just eliminate the line-item charges and reduce the price on the existing land-line service. |
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itguy05
join:2005-06-17
Camp Hill, PA | reply to bgraham
Re: Will they dump Voicewing now?
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Their FIOS and Voicewing sites are the slowest I have seen since I had dial up.
the .asp(x) at the end of the pages is the dead giveaway.... Junk Microsoft Windows servers providing the websites. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
|  reply to joe01880
Re: Why get it
said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Integrated services that can tie internet; voice; TV functions together in a pkg.
It also has enhanced capabilities that aren’t available with traditional phone services, such as scheduled call-forwarding (also known as “follow me”), the ability to ring multiple phone numbers simultaneously (e.g., both home and mobile phone), phone-book synchronization and click-to-dial. Plus more to come along - like scheduling DVR recordings from a phone call. Sending email msgs using voice to text translators, etc.
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to Hajman
said by Hajman :said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Answer: VOIP features (like simultaneous ring) that are not available to landline customers. If Verizon is able to deliver the quality and reliability of landline services, VOIP features and bundled pricing that is the same or less than their current bundled pricing, digital voice will be superior to landline service. Features may be one thing; however, nobody changes providers based on features alone. Worse, they still have to compete (in most areas, heads-up) with other VOIP providers, and especially Comcast Digital Voice, which is one of the leading culprits in VZ losing residential landlines (oddly enough, the largest culprit is VZW, as cell-only adoption, especially among younger households, and retired baby-boomers, is growing in the current economic climate). Just as VZ had to step up and compete with Comcast on price in TV, they will have to do the same thing if they are going to get serious about VOIP. (Naturally, they run the risk of causing even faster landline losses as existing VZ Freedom Essentials customers that have been, or will soon be, migrating to FIOS, migrate to VOIP.) |
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funchords
Hello
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Washington, DC
·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Skype
| reply to meh37
Re: Total cost?
I agree with your notion that going with your Internet provider for VOIP is about as smart as going with your Internet provider for email. Besides, Verizon can't support or manage the services that they offer now.
Now they have another service for Phillipino techs to read the manual to me as they're getting shouted at by their supervisers in Tagalog!?!! I swear to Holy Hell that Verizon never calls its own support lines!
That said, almost all these services line-item their taxes and fees. They do it in order to make you want to pressure regulators to relieve them of those fees. If they priced them in, they'd still have to pay them so you're not saving any money. They should be disclosed before you sign up.
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What you do at Christmas does not matter so much; What counts are the Christmas things you do all year through. |
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ggma1126
ggma1126
Premium
join:2008-08-30
Claymont, DE
| pricing
already have fios phone if price the same no need for me switch except for the xtra features, but the other problem I have is I use my landline for fax also (have distinctive ring for this) also don't like the idea of not haveing a direct 911 ability that you can't have with voip |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
| reply to joe01880
Re: Why get it
said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Exactly! Plus with Verizon being "The Phone Company" you are still stuck with all of those pesky fees and nuisance charges just like cable and their video service. The best solution is to get voice from the cable company, video from the phone company and flip a coin for internet. |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Long Overdue..
This is LONG OVERDUE... However, I will give Verizon enough rope with this one to hang themselves on price, features, bundles, unfees, and about a million other things that could really make this a non-event.. or just another press release with no meaning behind it.
Verizon would still have an uphill battle in NY Metro, the price to beat is: 89.85 (otherwise known as $29.95 x 3). I know this would make great inroads in Time Warner and Comcast regions though-- even if they can't match or beat Cablevision's triple play price.
What it also means is that Verizon smells blood in the water with Vonage and cash poor voip companies that they are picking their moment to go on the attack! |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to meh37
Re: Total cost?
If Verizon charges you taxes (non-tax fees are different, of course) that are not applicable for the services that you are purchasing from them (i.e., POTS-specific taxes for VoIP), that would seem to be fairly good grounds for a lawsuit or something, wouldn't it? |
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