 quetwoThat VoIP GuyPremium
join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI | It's all in the price, my dear friend... It's not about the technology, it's because of the price. People are sick of paying in the upwords of $50 for a standard landline. Since LD has become a commodity, the telcos started looking for new revenues, and that turned to the standard line charge. Now a days, you have to ask really hard to get the $12/month line that you are able to order (depending on your PSC). Call up Bell and see what the rep offers you... $40 for the "el-grande plan"? $50 for the "ulti-mo plan"? I bet they won't mention anything cheaper.
The VoIP providers are simply turning this market into a commodity market like LD has become. They are able to do this because they can get around Bell's infrastructure (hence, 'regulated' fees). Consumer's don't care about quality anymore. Cell phones have taught us that. No longer do you hear Sprint claiming to hear a pin-drop in an empty room. Nobody does. |
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| said by quetwo:It's not about the technology, it's because of the price. People are sick of paying in the upwords of $50 for a standard landline. I just pulled last months bills out. We pay $15.97/month to have a phone in the house. Now granted I can't make any long distant calls on it but that is why we are paying $83.92/month for our cell phones. I have absolutely no use for VOIP and I really don't understand all the hype unless it is possibly for business use. My wife and I use our cell phones to call all of our kids and relatives, everyone of which is long distant. And of course they all call us on our cell phones. Why would I pay $30.00 a month for VOIP????????????
There are times when our landline phone doesn't get picked up off the hook for 2 to 3 weeks maybe more. The only reason we have it is so if someone call us at night and our cell phones are downstairs.
I would be be surprised if everyone here doesn't have a cell phone and if you do give me a good reason why you also need VOIP at a residence??? |
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | said by ImaDuffer264:I would be be surprised if everyone here doesn't have a cell phone and if you do give me a good reason why you also need VOIP at a residence??? What is this cell phone you are talking about?
While I would be willing to bet most people have at least one cell phone per family, and sometimes one for each person in the family, there are still a lot of people that do not have a cell phone. I can not feature paying $40 to $100+ for something that I might use about 20 minutes a week, although there are occasions once or twice during the year where I might go for a couple of hours.
And there are several people at work (engineer types, not non-technical folks) that do not have one, so I am not unique.
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| You use your cell only about 20 minutes a week? You don't need to pay $40+ a month! Go with a no-contract prepaid service, such as Net10 (10 cents a minute, $30 every 60 days), T-Mobile To Go (10 cents/minute with the $100 card, good for 1 year), Virgin Mobile (20 cents/minute, $20 every 90 days minimum), or Page Plus Cellular (less than 6 cents/minute with the $80 card that is good for 120 days).
Do some research on www.cellguru.net. Click on "Prepaid Comparison". Also look on www.howardforums.com. |
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | said by slyphoxj:You use your cell only about 20 minutes a week? You don't need to pay $40+ a month! Go with a no-contract prepaid service, such as Net10 (10 cents a minute, $30 every 60 days), T-Mobile To Go (10 cents/minute with the $100 card, good for 1 year), Virgin Mobile (20 cents/minute, $20 every 90 days minimum), or Page Plus Cellular (less than 6 cents/minute with the $80 card that is good for 120 days). Do some research on www.cellguru.net. Click on "Prepaid Comparison". Also look on www.howardforums.com. No I do not use my cell, I do not have one. I was replying to Duffer who thought everyone has one, even though a lot of people (a minority, granted) still do not.
Thanks for the link, I am going to need one for my teen. Although I have a feeling based on your briefs that those are not much better.
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