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| Not Very Likely Traditional Telephony, meaning copper-based POTS service, is not going to die. It will get repriced and rebundled, but it will not be killed off. Its far too reliable compared to all other technology.
When VOIP providers learn what "reliable" actually means, and start providing hardware and network connections that live up to LEC service levels, and they start charging the same taxes as LECs are required, I don't think there will be so much enthusiasm for them.
Try running a small business, with published phone numbers, on non-LEC lines. Be prepared to close your doors. | |
 knightmbEverybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN | said by POTS User :
Try running a small business, with published phone numbers, on non-LEC lines. Be prepared to close your doors.
Have been for 3 years now, see my reviews if you like. I also had a POTS line and it's downtime was more than the VoIP lines, but the whole "POTS lines are invincible" urban myth was dispelled long ago here.  | |
| said by knightmb:said by POTS User :
Try running a small business, with published phone numbers, on non-LEC lines. Be prepared to close your doors.
Have been for 3 years now, see my reviews if you like. I also had a POTS line and it's downtime was more than the VoIP lines, but the whole "POTS lines are invincible" urban myth was dispelled long ago here. Just pray your VOIP provider doesn't go BK overnight and take your DID's with them.
POTS lines are not invincible, and telco is quite fallable.
I've spent plenty of time dealing with ILEC issues. I'm all too familiar with POTS outages. But there is always a fast workaround, no one is ever out of service completely, and credits are always applied
Those relying on cable-modems for VOIP, well... good luck.
I've never had telco steal a phone number, assign it to someone else, stop paying the rent on the number, or go out of business and take the numbers with them.
I've had plenty of rescue calls from foolish businessmen who bought 100% VOIP based on price, and were shocked when their phones would not ring, and they found out they didn't own their phone numbers. Old-school businessmen treat their phone numbers (with a $5K yellow pages bill) like gold. Some of the new folks have to learn the hard way.
VOIP has some advantages, and may be practical when used in conjunction with POTS, but it is a complementary service, not a replacement.
If yours is working rock-solid for three years, that's great. I've never encountered anything near that level of reliability amongst the major small-scale VOIP vendors. I will certainly look at your reviews. | |
 tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI | reply to knightmb
said by knightmb:said by POTS User :
Try running a small business, with published phone numbers, on non-LEC lines. Be prepared to close your doors.
Have been for 3 years now, see my reviews if you like. I also had a POTS line and it's downtime was more than the VoIP lines, but the whole "POTS lines are invincible" urban myth was dispelled long ago here. WOW.. you are one lucky SOB. I had (tried) 2 different VoIP providers and in simple terms or lack for better words.. THEY SUCKED! Outages, noisy connections, echo, misdirected calls, customer support.. You name it, it was there. See MY reviews.. Oh, did I mention the outages? Went back to POTS. I didn't mind paying a little more for something that was MUCH MORE reliable. Power outages? Please.. 8 hrs later, your running around the house looking for you cell, provided your near a golden site that has a genset for backup. Your around the 1 percentile that has better luck with VoIP then POTS users. Now, step away from the med's.. | |
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