 v35_pilotWhoops, there goes another AMUPremium
join:2005-12-12
Fayetteville, NY
 ·ViaTalk
 ·Verizon FiOS
| reply to fiberguy
Re: Evolution of the VoIP market? said by fiberguy: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)... In upstate NY, Verizon charges about $36/month before taxes for unlimited local and long distance and only three features: Call waiting, caller ID, and voicemail. Add all taxes and surcharges to that and the cost blooms to $59/month.
The absolute most basic phone service from Verizon in this area where EVERY outbound call is ten cents a call and no features is $12/month plus another $12 for taxes and surcharges.
In my case I wanted to finally use voicemail over an answering machine so I called VZ to enable it. What's that? Voicemail is not available in your area. Okay... that was what finally pushed me away.
So, in September 2006 I signed up with ViaTalk and currently pay about $14/month all inclusive. The control I now have over my phone service (whose phone number can ring our phones and when) is incredible. Over the past year I have had perhaps two weeks worth of VT-related quality problems, but never a service outage.
Am I concerned about VT going under? Sometimes, but this only has to do with the hassle of trying to keep my existing phone number. In the meantime I have saved about $500 per year.
Not a fanboy by any means, but just reporting this one's experience. |
