phoneboy3
@shawcable.net
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amdace 
| Why hate Vonage?
Why hate Vonage? They singlehandedly brought VoIP awareness to the masses and inflicted a lot of pain on the telcos and gave them quite the wake up call.
Anyone who annoys the Telco's by offering something (gasp!) innovative is ok in my books! |
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guppy_fish
Premium
join:2003-12-09
Lakeland, FL
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by phoneboy3 :
Why hate Vonage? They singlehandedly brought VoIP awareness to the masses and inflicted a lot of pain on the telcos and gave them quite the wake up call.
Wishful thinking on your part ...
Verizon has lost less than a percent or two of it landline business ... and in the last quarter, line losses actually stop and had a small gain in POTS
With over 200+ million US landlines, the number over VOIP customers is still VERY small , and by the looks of it will be getting smaller
As for Verizon "hurting", not a chance .. The Stock is up about 33% in the last year, they just increase the dividend all the while they fund the FIOS rollout and aggressive wireless network additions. |
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DreamWraith
Premium
join:2004-04-07
Mount Vernon, WA
| percent or two? surely YOU have wishfull thinking. let me guess, this falls under the "99% of statistics are made up on the spot" clause, doesnt it?
Or do you claim to have actually pulled that 1 or 2 percent from somewhere *other* than your a**?
if there really *are* "200+" million land lines. then i would say they lost more than just a few million of those to voip of some kind.
hell, the company i work for no longer uses t1 phone lines. we have a voip provider for all 4000+ phone lines. each building has a voip server which communicates with an endpoint over our fiber connections.
Thats over 4000 lines lost in a single fell swoop. And with the cost savings, you can bet your arse that plenty of companies are following suit. |
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GilbertMark
Premium
join:2001-05-02
Gilbert, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to phoneboy3
said by phoneboy3 :
Why hate Vonage? They singlehandedly brought VoIP awareness to the masses and inflicted a lot of pain on the telcos and gave them quite the wake up call.
Anyone who annoys the Telco's by offering something (gasp!) innovative is ok in my books!
Well that stupid Kill Bill song they have always used is my #1 reason. After more than 2 years I barf every time a Vonage commercial comes on.
Dead by December.....
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JoeG4
join:2001-12-16
945941 | F*CKING A!
Well, Sprint and Verizon can rest assured that they're the last phone companies I'll ever want anything to do with.
I'm probably going to go the skypeout route next. That, or packet8. *sigh* I hate their codecs. |
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Jackson5
@sterlingstudents.net | Vonage loses again...I don't think people other than those die hard Vonage fans will buy stocks and at the current trend, it will still go down until it reach zero then you lose all your money for buying 93 cents per share today. |
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