Fisamo
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 ·AT&T CallVantage
| said by ITALIAN926  :Or........ go back to having a reliable landline  While that option may be the best for some, one should realize the SR never had a good business model. If you take the time to read the uber-thread in the SR forum, you'll find some interesting tidbits about how much SR planned on paying per subscriber in acquisition costs. Hint: It was well over the $200 they collected for a year or two of unlimited domestic service.
It is quite unfair to classify all VOIP providers as unreliable (which you may not have directly said, but the implication was certainly there) based on the poor business model and blatant crony-ism under which SR operated.
Contrast outfits like VoicePulse, which has had its doors open to those fleeing POTS lines (and other VoIPs, of course) for well over three years now and, while small, consistently gets extremely high praise from their user base. Unless regulated out of existence and/or until wireless communication solutions take over the voice communication market, VoIP will certainly maintain a solid market, IMO.
BTW, as a satisfied ATTCV customer, I'd also commend CallVantage in the class of reliable VoIP providers, but they're not an independent company like VoicePulse... |
