said by KrK :

This is a bad business idea, IMHO. AT&T is thinking of the future already: The future where they have VERY LOW caps and MEGA HIGH overage charges to protect their monopoly type services.

They think by shutting down CV they will force users into more expensive, AT&T plans.... but at this stage, it's jumping the gun, because they are *actually* getting people to leave for competitor's third party VOIP, and that's a bad business move!

But they have plans, oh yes. The Deathstar is under construction. They figure soon will come a time when low gigabyte caps and high overage charges will mean third party VOIP will not be nearly as attractive.... and even if you stay with a third party, AT&T can still make bank by charging you metered billing for the bandwidth.

Problem is, they moved early. The battle station isn't quite operational just yet.

said by rmrper :

What seems dumb about this to me, is even though we haven't been given a cut off date, many of us CV users are already looking at our options to leave. Based on user reports here, I'm considering VoicePulse. If I end up happy with them, I'll have little motivation to move to AT&T's new BYOB service whenever they launch it. AT&T should have had their new service ready to go before telling us they were killing CV, I might have been willing to at least consider their new offering. Now, they'll just lose another customer.

said by kieranmullen :

voicepulse.com is good. However have you looked at your actual outgoing usage and calcuklated what it would cost to go per minute? You could go with the PBX in a flash offer that is still ongoing for $4 a month (total .. there are no taxes) and then pay pennies per minute. Incomming is free.

I do not work for them. Sorry about the huge pic. I have multiple providers. I am not a salesperson of this product.

»pbxinaflash.com/vitelity/

said by 44402812 :

Yeah but now you are comparing apples to oranges. The original thread is about AT&T Call Vantage which is residential PBX is business class. Most residential customers use at least 500 outgoing minutes a month and I use 1,500-2k on average. So that is not a deal for the average residential user. People reading this thread are not going to be interested in a PBX system? They just want to pay a cheap monthly rate between 10-30.00 a month and have a phone that works with a unlimited minutes.

said by rmrper :

What seems dumb about this to me, is even though we haven't been given a cut off date, many of us CV users are already looking at our options to leave. Based on user reports here, I'm considering VoicePulse. If I end up happy with them, I'll have little motivation to move to AT&T's new BYOB service whenever they launch it. AT&T should have had their new service ready to go before telling us they were killing CV, I might have been willing to at least consider their new offering. Now, they'll just lose another customer.

said by kieranmullen :

I do not quite understand you. You put your sip credntials in a PBX or an ATA. what does it matter?

2000 minutes out pure outgoing minutes at 1.4 per minut =
$28 + $3.99 for number $31.99 (no tax)