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N3OGH
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
 ·Verizon FIOS
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Re: VoIP
I have heard Verizon's VoiceWing sucks goat unit...
The only rationale I can come up with for them keeping the phone side of it POTS is even with FiOS, POTS is the past, present, and future of Verizon's phone offering. ONT's are designed to integrate into the existing POTS wiring in customer's homes. So, I can kinda see the point of keeping the voice end of it POTS.
Since I'm on my work computer, I can't get the flash based demo on Verizon's web site to work.
I'm guessing the WiFi is used to push the data to it in FiOS connections, and it uses it's own built in DSL modem for DSL customers. That's just a guess.
It looks like a neat gadget, and I am a gadget junkie, but I would have to see one in action and play with it a LOT before I plunked down $250 for it. The weather feature would have to be more than just text, it would have to include animated radar and such.
I like the idea (someone mentioned earlier) of the TV remote doubling as a phone. I also like the idea of being able to control my DVR box with the gadget. This way, I wouldn't have to fire up my projection TV and surround sound receiver to schedule shows on my DVR.
Of course, that's not until I can get FiOS TV.....
Yeah, for $250, I would have to think long and hard before I bit....
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kyler13
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join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD
| said by N3OGH  :ONT's are designed to integrate into the existing POTS wiring in customer's homes. So, I can kinda see the point of keeping the voice end of it POTS. Well, you're talking about the limited households that get FIOS, and let me tell you that POTS via FIOS is alot more like telephone service over cable HSI (prioritized data stream). It's just that it's the telco and they get to call it POTS so the federal, state, and local governments get their money. | |
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