r81984
Tough to beat.
Premium
join:2001-11-14
Morgan City, LA
 ·Cox HSI
·Insight Communicat..
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Someone will buy vonage
Vonage has built brand recongnition.
Vonage will not die, but it will probably change hands.
Wouldn't it be funny if one of those telco companies buys it.
AT&T Vonage phone service
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| AT&T Vonage would be brand destruction. If anybody buys it of the likes of AT&T (since AT&T is a horrible brand), they ought to hide the owners and just brand it Vonage.
We all know how dedicated AT&T Cingular AT&T the new AT&T Cingular AT&T is to its customers, and the quality of its products. When's the last time you actually knew the name of that company? AT&T is a brand that destroys the quality of anything it's attached to, so you ought to run as fast as you can away from it. When AT&T bought McCaw Cellular, they took a decent phone company and destroyed it -- I never had drops (NYC) until AT&T bought it. I switched to Bell Atlantic Mobile (NYC) and had superb service (back in AMPS days of course), wishing I had switched a lot sooner.
AT&T these days has billing errors galore. Every AT&T account anybody I know has has multiple existant billing errors at any given moment, and often worse.
How could you destroy a brand like Vonage quicker than attaching AT&T to it? |
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r81984
Tough to beat.
Premium
join:2001-11-14
Morgan City, LA
·Cox HSI
·Insight Communicat..
·AT&T Midwest
| You missed my point.
Someone will buy Vonage for their brand recognition.
The part about AT&T was just hypothetical as Vonage bashes phone companies.
Anyways AT&T (Technically SBC) is not as bad as you claim.
I have had AT&T/SBC Dsl for years and never had any real issues with service.
I had one issue and they sent a tech out the next day and installed a nid splitter and new twisted pair phone cable for free.
But I do know people who had some bad issues with their DSL and that is because AT&T allows people too far away and with bad lines get DSL without fixing their lines.
I have always had AT&T phone service and never ever had a problem with it. In fact we lost cable TV for a week from a snowstorm in the 90s and my Phone and Internet worked worked fine the whole time.
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manhole
join:2000-09-12
Modesto, CA
clubs:
| reply to Ulmo
Any other garbage you want to include? I've been an AT&T Wireless --> Cingular --> New AT&T customer for over 6-years and have excellent service. My AT&T DSL service is rock solid (again, a customer for about 6 - 7 years here). I have not had any of those billing errors that everyone you know talks about.
I am by far not an AT&T fanboy. I strongly disagree with much of what they do. I have Sonic DSL service at my office, and DirecTV for television, but the garbage you are spewing is just that. |
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jhacker
join:2001-12-11
Peoria, IL
·Comcast
 ·Vonage
·Insight Communicat..
·AT&T Midwest
| reply to Ulmo
said by Ulmo  :AT&T Vonage would be brand destruction. AT&T these days has billing errors galore. Every AT&T account anybody I know has has multiple existent billing errors at any given moment, and often worse. How could you destroy a brand like Vonage quicker than attaching AT&T to it? My sentiments exactly. I just dropped all my AT&T products and switched to Vonage. I had all sorts of the billing problems you mentioned, on top of service problems on their end they wanted to charge me to fix. Every month I'd have to call to question certain charges and find out why I wasn't receiving certain discounts I was entitled to. Finally, I got fed up and cancelled AT&T DSL, Dish Network, and the POTS is in the process of being shut off. I substituted with cable TV, internet, and Vonage. So far, Vonage has had its ups and downs. At least I don't have to pay extra for long distance or any custom calling features. In most cases the sound quality is as good as or better than POTS. There have been a few glitches, but I'm willing to put up with it because I'm paying much less. Despite what most people believe, POTS is not without its minor glitches either. Hopefully Vonage's customer service will improve. I'm not worried about Vonage going bankrupt because I'm sure some other company will gobble up the most recognizable name in VOIP. I just hope to God it's not 'deathstar'!!  |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | reply to r81984
I am another one - I have had POTS from AT&T for years and never had a billing issue nor has my phone line been down. Phone bill is only $36-39/month (I use a AT&T calling card from WalMart/Sams for LD). |
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jsb825
Premium
join:2003-10-08
Orlando, FL | reply to r81984
If a telco gets vonage, I will leave the service. Its exactly what the telcos want, they want death to voip so they can enter in and take over THEN fcc will regulate to protect the scum sucking pigs in the corporate greed world. |
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nozzer
join:2004-06-25
Waltham, MA | reply to CylonRed
Does that 36-39 INCLUDE the cost of calling cards? I doubt it.
I pay about $30 a month to Vonage. I use well over a 1000 minutes a month calling, about 500 of it to Europe. AT&T wouldn't even come close. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
·Speakeasy
| For you it would not - I rarely call long distance so add in maybe $3.00/month and probably more like 1/3rd of that or less.
Fact is - the company needs to make money - something that have yet to do which means the prices are too low and they will fail eventually. There is no such thing as a free lunch - or free long distance either. |
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