CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
1 edit | reply to CUBS_FAN
Re: Bye Bye Vonage?
$35 is $4 more than my pots line. Certainly no benefit for me. |
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CUBS_FAN
Next Year Again..
join:2005-04-28
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
 ·Vonage
| said by CylonRed  :$35 is $4 more than my pots line. Certainly no benefit for me. $4 more??? OMG people. That's splitting hairs here. Do you actually feel so much richer because your bill is $4 less? I don't. Maybe $10 less is a difference.
Yeah, so what if $4 saved is $48 annually. Whip-de-do.  . Go put a down payment on that house with $48. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| It has more to do of Vonage not offering me ANY benefit. No reason to switch to Vonage if my bill will be more.
For folks that use a lot of long distance calling lots can be saved but they have to get enough of these folks and charge enough to make money or they will die. Vonage is not keeping these folks nor are they charging enough to make a profit.
There are plenty of folks like me where there is 0 incentive to switch. |
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| said by CylonRed :It has more to do of Vonage not offering me ANY benefit. No reason to switch to Vonage if my bill will be more. For folks that use a lot of long distance calling lots can be saved but they have to get enough of these folks and charge enough to make money or they will die. Vonage is not keeping these folks nor are they charging enough to make a profit. There are plenty of folks like me where there is 0 incentive to switch. Plus, Vonage doesn't work when the power is out. POTS lines usually do.
My POTS line is around $21 a month after all fees. I never make LD calls, so Vonage would cost MORE, tie up some of my Internet bandwidth, and wouldn't work if the power was out or I had an ISP outage.
(Now if I were to switch to naked DSL and get a monster UPS or backup generator, I could use VOIP when my power is out, provided that DSL is still up. But where's the advantage?) |
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CUBS_FAN
Next Year Again..
join:2005-04-28
Chicago, IL
·Comcast
·Vonage
| said by dentman42 :Plus, Vonage doesn't work when the power is out. POTS lines usually do. Whenever I lose power(twice in the past 3 years) my calls automatically route to my cellphone. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| Only works when towers have power and the cell phone can be recharged... In SW Ohio we had a protracted power outage (over a week for a lot of folks) and a good number of cell towers ran out of power on day one and took several days to come back up. POTS was up the entire time for the vast majority of the area. |
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