joe01880
join:2007-10-26
Wakefield, MA | Why get it
If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | all that extra VALUE! think of the time saved with BUNDLING! |
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Hajman
join:2001-12-17
Phoenixville, PA
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said by joe01880  :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Answer: VOIP features (like simultaneous ring) that are not available to landline customers. If Verizon is able to deliver the quality and reliability of landline services, VOIP features and bundled pricing that is the same or less than their current bundled pricing, digital voice will be superior to landline service. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Integrated services that can tie internet; voice; TV functions together in a pkg.
It also has enhanced capabilities that aren’t available with traditional phone services, such as scheduled call-forwarding (also known as “follow me”), the ability to ring multiple phone numbers simultaneously (e.g., both home and mobile phone), phone-book synchronization and click-to-dial. Plus more to come along - like scheduling DVR recordings from a phone call. Sending email msgs using voice to text translators, etc.
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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said by Hajman :said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Answer: VOIP features (like simultaneous ring) that are not available to landline customers. If Verizon is able to deliver the quality and reliability of landline services, VOIP features and bundled pricing that is the same or less than their current bundled pricing, digital voice will be superior to landline service. Features may be one thing; however, nobody changes providers based on features alone. Worse, they still have to compete (in most areas, heads-up) with other VOIP providers, and especially Comcast Digital Voice, which is one of the leading culprits in VZ losing residential landlines (oddly enough, the largest culprit is VZW, as cell-only adoption, especially among younger households, and retired baby-boomers, is growing in the current economic climate). Just as VZ had to step up and compete with Comcast on price in TV, they will have to do the same thing if they are going to get serious about VOIP. (Naturally, they run the risk of causing even faster landline losses as existing VZ Freedom Essentials customers that have been, or will soon be, migrating to FIOS, migrate to VOIP.) |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
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said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Exactly! Plus with Verizon being "The Phone Company" you are still stuck with all of those pesky fees and nuisance charges just like cable and their video service. The best solution is to get voice from the cable company, video from the phone company and flip a coin for internet. |
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mystryfiostk
join:2008-07-17
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| said by n2jtx :said by joe01880 :If there is not price advantage to current land line service why get it? Exactly! Plus with Verizon being "The Phone Company" you are still stuck with all of those pesky fees and nuisance charges just like cable and their video service. The best solution is to get voice from the cable company, video from the phone company and flip a coin for internet. Have you seen what the cable companies charge for unbundled voip?
Last I checked, around here Comcast VOIP a la carte was $60! |
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Slidetbone
Mazin Go
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join:2002-11-10
Land O Lakes, FL
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said by n2jtx :Exactly! Plus with Verizon being "The Phone Company" you are still stuck with all of those pesky fees and nuisance charges just like cable and their video service. The best solution is to get voice from the cable company, video from the phone company and flip a coin for internet. I don't think so. I believe VoIP is not regulated like analog POTS, so those fees you speak of apply only for analog POTS.
If that is the case, then bundling with Verizon will make more sense. Best broadband, best TV and best digital voice...well, when DV becomes available and passes scrutiny  . |
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meh37
@verizon.net
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"I believe VoIP is not regulated like analog POTS..."
yet. Federal, state, and local governments have been slowly migrating "land-line" fees over to VoIP; eventually, I don't doubt that govt. will try to move all such fees to every voice service, regardless of how it's delivered. |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
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said by Slidetbone :I don't think so. I believe VoIP is not regulated like analog POTS, so those fees you speak of apply only for analog POTS. A rate schedule I received for FiOS shows an FCC Line charge of $6.50. FCC Line charge?!?!?! Cable does not have that one (yet). |
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Slidetbone
Mazin Go
Premium
join:2002-11-10
Land O Lakes, FL
| ...yes, but slowly those fees have also gotten to broadband and TV services.
I really do not believe that with our government ways we will escape the taxing of any services whether regulated or not. I remember when cellphone service was flat based on the plan. Now, there are fees included based on the rate center of the cellphone number assigned.
It will be a matter of how much we will stand to pay. |
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Nightwchtr
join:2001-09-10
Falls Church, VA | reply to joe01880
thats y I will never get it |
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