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Re: Vonage Commits to Refinance said by newview: quote:
Vonage Holdings Corp. a leading provider of broadband telephone service, announced today it has entered into a commitment letter with Silver Point Finance, LLC ("Silver Point") establishing the terms and conditions for up to $215 million in private debt financing of which Silver Point has committed to provide $125 million.
Please use some of that cash to develop SELECTIVE Call Blocking for your customers, who have been patiently waiting for it forever. I give them about a year before they file bankruptcy. Their churn rate is horrible. Cable VOIP/Digital Voice/Cellphones with Unlimited Calling is going to kill them. Triple play will become more of a deal. If caps are truly imposed with overage charges, Vonage is over anyway.
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| said by supergirl:I give them about a year before they file bankruptcy. Their churn rate is horrible. Cable VOIP/Digital Voice/Cellphones with Unlimited Calling is going to kill them. Triple play will become more of a deal. If caps are truly imposed with overage charges, Vonage is over anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if Vonage does file for bankruptcy at some point. Then again people have been saying that for years I think. so you never know.
Unlimited Mobile Phone Plans? Perhaps. There's a $50 price premium between unlimited mobile plans and unlimited POTS, prior to taxes and fees ($100 vs. $50). The cost difference between unlimited mobile and unlimited VOIP is even larger. Since it's easier to share POTS and VOIP the cost difference is even larger.
Caps? Oh please. And for the record, I don't agree with caps at all. However, what VOIP uses is actually quite small. Using G.711 ulaw, the bulkiest VOIP codec, 1GB data = just over 1,609 minutes.
Suppose, as a hypothetical example:
There's a family of four blabbermouths. They each talk three hours a day, and this doesn't include work or mobile phone usage. That's 720 minutes per day, or about 21,916 minutes per month. Using G.711 ulaw, that's about 13.2 GB. On Comcast's 250GB cap, there's still lots of room left. They'd be at a far greater risk of using up that cap for other things.
In real life, I doubt anyone actually talks three hours a day on the phone outside work. If there's anyone who does, they are quite rare.
So, while I disagree with caps, to say that caps will make VOIP hurt is nonsensical. The only way caps will hurt VOIP is if people don't put it all into perspective. | |
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