Hajman
join:2001-12-17
Phoenixville, PA
| reply to joe01880
Re: Why get it
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. |
PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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 ·Comcast
| 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.) |
