morbo
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 ·AT&T Southwest
| lower the price, you idiots
consumers know that for a monthly land-line bill of $20-30, they get pretty much a dialtone and maybe a feature or two. Half of that amount is taxes and unfees.
if telco wanted to KEEP customers, they would tout the 911 features and offer a low-cost version with caller-id. that's enough to keep me with a landline.
unfortunately, they won't do that. |
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fiberguy
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join:2005-05-20
| When things like CallerID became $8.00 a month, and voice mail became $10.00 a month, and call waiting is $5.00 a month, and land lines became $22 a month and then the taxes and fees that almost amount to the price of a land line dial tone itself, the phone companies can only look to themselves. They need to spend less time trying to figure out why their land line service is becoming as obsolete as the dinosaurs become.. no wait.. they need to look at their Sr. management and executives and remind themselves that they, themselves, are obsolete like the dinosaurs are. They could do the economy a favor and quickly turn into oil as they should.
Their business model is old and outdated and needs a major overhaul. I don't agree that a land line should be $10 a month out the door, but their "rope the customer into crap they don't need to get a price point we want" kinda crap isn't working to well for them either.
They should also stop trying to play people too. They're not hurting.. they're not in trouble.. they're HAPPY to push people off copper onto the more lucrative wireless business they all have. |
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spewak
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Elk Grove, CA
·SureWest Internet
·FrontierNet Intern..
| said by fiberguy  :When things like CallerID became $8.00 a month, and voice mail became $10.00 a month, and call waiting is $5.00 a month, and land lines became $22 a month and then the taxes and fees that almost amount to the price of a land line dial tone itself One more thing/fee: $5.00 to NOT have your name published in the Phone book. Wholeheartedly agree with the rest of your post also.
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