fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| reply to La Luna
Re: Evolution of the VoIP market?
I LOVE the entertainment this forum provides me when people come here and try to have a world wide / national discussion and then use local world examples.
YOU LIVE IN SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE PARTS OF THE WORLD!!
Did I say that loud enough?? Much of the country can get a land line for about $15 or so a month.. some will pay less, some will pay more.
Why bother...
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| reply to axus
Comparing AOL to a public utility is apples to oranges, but thanks.
The fact is that the part of the country that is chiming up here needs to remember that you all live in an expensive part of the country. It's expensive!! I know I will get lashed out for one this one, but its true: If you don't like these prices, then move to get relief. The cost to deliver anything to anyone in that area is always going to be higher than the rest of the country. It's certainly not a part of the country to live in if you don't make a good living, that's for sure. But, if it's not phone, it's going to be something else.
No, I am not any of those people you tried to use in your post - sorry. In fact, those days of per byte/hour broadband are on the horizon in case you haven't noticed. Give it a few years and broadband will be sold in tiers or caps with overage charges.
The FACT is, remains, that NOTHING is "free" or "Unlimited".. not even "unlimited long distance" .. read your agreement. Unlimited is equal to about 5000 minutes. You can't give the masses anything unlimited because some people will abuse it. When ever something unlimited is released, it pretty quickly goes back to being limited because, as you said, it's narrowed down to what the market can handle.
From your post, you make it sound like it's just a matter of time before you will get an unlimited service for a good price from that provider from god.. it's not going to happen and it won't happen anytime soon.
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matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT
| reply to tc1uscg
You did take into consideration that these same "POTS" companies are typically the ones that control the backbone that all indie VoIP provider traffic must travel on, right? Meaning, they end up having to pay The Bell anyway. So, The Bell can charge just enough for the bandwidth consumption where the indie VoIP is forced to raise their rates to match (or, more often than not, exceed) the prices offered by The Bell for the exact same service. Why do you think The Bell has been raising the network neutrality issue so frequently for the past couple of years? They want to raise the prices in order to control more of the market using anticompetitive practices. And, unfortunately for us, The Bell pays off Uncle Sam so there's absolutely no hope of this cycle ever ending in this country.
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mammasix
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join:2004-01-10
Frederick, MD
| reply to wierdo
I have a stripped down landline for my security system...guess how much this little piece of technology costs me? 25 per month. I can only get calls in, any calls out are charged per call.
On the other hand I have a VoIP line that costs me 19 a month and I have unlimited calling and full features.
I don't know where you guys live, but in MD, Verizon is a parasite. Before VoIP, we were paying around 80 per month for phone service. |
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