n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
 ·Optimum Online
| reply to joe01880
Re: Why get it
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
Premium
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
| said by Slidetbone:
"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
| reply to Slidetbone
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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