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| Consider the eyes of most people Most people are not like us on BBR, The have POTS and Cable TV. Most do not use VOIP. Most have a cell phone and house phone. You have to think fo what most people see, They dont see, the fact the Cable and Bells are competing over phone. They see Cable TV, Cable HSI, POTS, DSL. Think of it. I dont really care for naked DSL, I myself dont see VOIP's superiority over POTS besides pricing, and the fact you can use it almost anywhere theres broadband. With POTS, you have service after the power goes out VOIP, maybe if you're lucky. POTS 911 works perfectly fine. VOIP, if you're lucky you can set it up to work okay. I don't see anything VOIP can do that a POTS can't, maybe Video phone. With a POTS and Cellphone, I do do everythign VOIP can do. | |
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Not only that, but no one says you HAVE to go for the bundling scam, such as unlimited long distance and every lame, useless "feature" you can think of for $50 a month, WETHER YOU USE THEM OR NOT YOU STILL PAY FOR THEM. That's why they are so heavilly promoted. They know the lazy and clueless will go for getting ripped.
You can, still, get just a basic line with no frills. Just stick a machine on it and you're good to go. I have a cell, it was AT&T and it's now Cingular. I dont notice any difference other than I seem to never be roaming any more and my price hasn't changed. Works for me.
It's simply a matter of patiently wading through all the marketing crap and cherry picking what you need/want.
And I have the forementioned basic line with 19.95 DSL from SBC. It costs about $45 a month. I keep the line because it works-Just as it did in the northwest blackout a couple of years ago-My cell failed immediately because there were no operational cell sites. VOIP would have too, because no power to run a computer, never mind being able to connect to the internet. Besides, we've had the same phone number for 30 years.
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