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tc1uscg

join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI

reply to fiberguy
Re: Evolution of the VoIP market?

said by fiberguy See Profile :

It amazes me how people love their VoIP service at $24 a month or $199 for two years. They love to save all this money and claim that other VoIP and POTS services are too expensive (usually $15 more a month)...

However, they remain shocked or angered when their companies are starting to fold. This should be a lesson to people that phone service just can't be sold for $24 a month or less. Enjoy the savings now and just be ready to come back to the real world of telephone service. This is what a savings of $15 gets people... no dial tome.

My attitude is eat out at McDonalds one less time and put that towards reliable phone service from a company you know will be there tomorrow.

Undercutting the competition will/can only last for so long. There's also one other thing these guys forget.. in order to undercut AND stay in business for long, they need to also offer a service that is equal or superior to the very people they are trying to undercut - so far, they haven't.

... Line 'em up! Who's next?
Ditto. But there will still be those "cult" types who will almost just die as not to go back to the likes of "AT&T" type service. And for every "Oh, my service was outstanding", there's a "my service sucked". SOOOO as they say, that is that. While the Voip die hards bounce from cheap provider to cheap provider, I'm afraid in a few years, only the TELCO's will be selling IP based communications and these MOM and POP companies will be few and far between.

matrix3D

join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT

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.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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