jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| Huh?
The new black unit integrates cordless phone, Wi-Fi and again clings to POTS (no VoIP as far as we can tell). Users can check their voicemail, manage their FiOSTV DVRs and even order a Pizza. Isn't Verizon ridding of POTS as they deploy FiOS? So how is it that you can manage your FiOS TV DVR yet it requires a POTS line and no VoIP???
That dosn't make sense.
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- "Techie" Jim |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | No.
POTS works over fiber as well. |
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
clubs:
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| reply to jimbo2150
It's basically *fiberized POTS*, but over fiber, not copper. And considering that typical VZ Freedom plans (which *includes* AYCE national long-distance, the most popular services such as call-waiting/forwarding/etc., and even inside line maintenance with most plans; try getting that from a VoIP provider!) are either bundled with, or upsold with, FIOS (single or dual-service; VZ Freedom is also heavily sold to copper customers) and costs little more than VoIP from the more reliable providers (including Packet8 and ViaTalk), unless you're a VZ hater, there's little incentive to leave VZ's POTS offerings.
VZ Freedom is the Diskeeper of POTS; basically flat-rate national unmetered phone service that even AT&T never offered when the Bell System was all a single piece! I don't know about you, but given worry-free unmetered POTS with no long-distance phone bill (the family makes no international calls; hence no long-distance bill whatever with Freedom), E911 (available from few VoIP providers), and almost all the services offered by VoIP providers, for little more than VoIP, why switch? |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| reply to Ahrenl
In reply to Ahrenl and PGHammer... huh???
You cannot get an analog signal down a fiber optic line no matter how hard you try. It has to be converted to digital signal to travel though the fiber optics. Hence VoIP. Calling it POTS is misleading and implies old copper.
I have flat-rate unlimited local/long-distance now from the cable provider. It is over the cable line in a digital format. VoIP.
If my telco offered telephone service over their copper line but converted to digital and sent over the internet protocol... it's VoIP.
Calling it POTS is confusing when its clearly digital and VoIP.
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- "Techie" Jim |
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