Comcast: 3 Million VoIP Customers in 2 Years > Fantastic service

Fantastic service

I have to say that I agree. I used to have Cox cable, which in its own right was good. They used the same Arris Modem for cable modem and voice that Comcast does. I have to say that I have been impressed by the cable VoIP providers. Comcast, Time Warner, Cox and Cablevision have a good product on their hands. Now if we could get a little lower price, that would be icing on the cake!

reply to Cabal
I will stick with the 'fly-by-night' VoIP companies for now. Way more cheap and many more features.

reply to reelbigfish
Yup. We need the equivalent of a "lite" tier for phone service. Some of us don't need "unlimited" long distance calling.

Something like a 1000 minutes with basic call features (Caller ID/Call Waiting/etc) for $14/month would be perfect.

If they offer something like that, they will pick up a sh*t ton of customers who primarily use their cell phone but want a landline around for occasional calls or faxing.

Time Warner offers a form of lite tier here in CA called "California Unlimited". Factoring in triple-play discounts it works out to $24.95/mo. Its a much better deal than POTS, but still a bit pricier than I'd like.
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I agree... Comcast (at least when it was here in Santa Clarita), cleared out the 'low' end products on cable, and made it uncompetitive.
I would have liked to see it 'more' competitive with the likes of Vonage/CallVantage. T-Mobile's UMA service is the way I'd like to see things go... 1 phone for wireless/home.
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Or use something 'cheap' like Skypeout for calling, and a basic POTS line ($10/month) for incoming. Its annoying having separate lines for incoming/outgoing.

Yeah I really, really like the T-mobile UMA concept.

For now I do a ghetto-backwards version of "find me", I have my cell phone's "busy forwarding" number set to my landline. What that actually does is forward the call only when I press the hangup button while ringing. That way I can easily "transfer" the incoming call to my landline if I'm home.

If I *don't* presss the hangup button the call still goes to my cell's voicemail.

This works for me since my cell has a good enough signal for the call to get through, its just hard to hold conversations reliably.
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reply to Cabal
We've had Comcast's CDV for nearly a year now. The service has been pretty good. We've had some issues but they were rectified with a service call. We dropped AT&T as their billing and customer service were really bad. No more land lines here... VoIP and cell phones all the way.

reply to djrobx
I've got too many phone lines:

1. POTS unlimited ($45/month)
2. AT&T cellphone plan - 2 lines ($60/month after taxes)
3. Work Nextel line (+3000 minutes/month Blackberry 7100i)
4. Skypeout ($15/year).

When my DSL and DirecTv contracts are up, I'll probably shed the POTS unlimited as well, and 'may' go Uverse TV / DSL and CallVantage (POTS not required for Uverse) to save a bit.
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Looks like the east and west coast are covered nicely, too bad Comcast is at best, erratic in the mid west. I would love to get rid of my landline but it is, where I live, the only reliable source of voice communication.
Comcast has signal issues that change on a block by block basis. And since they haven't yet fulfilled their obligations for internet and cable service, why would I try their voice?

This is widely known throughout Chicago!
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reply to Cabal