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00000 | The Value Of VoIP --- ABSOLUTELY, saves me 80% At my business I used to have 5 POTS lines with Verizon. But then with every expiration of my Centrex contract the price would jump double digits. After dropping dial up I was able to but back to 3 POTS lines and still the price was going up faster than I was cutting services.
Now here we are in a major deflationary recession and what did Verizon do? Took another MASSIVE increase. If I renew my contract they will take ONLY a 25% increase, if I don't, the price doubles. So on my 3 business lines with virtually no LD charges I'm close to $250/mo including added services like caller ID and voicemail...yeah, $250/mo for only 3 lines and I barely use them. Their sales people were arrogant in their tone, firm on these massive price increases as if I didn't have a choice.
So I call Megapath who provides my DS1 circuit and ordered Duet (their DS1+VoIP service). For roughly $50 more than I'm currently paying for my COVAD DS1 I am get those same 3 lines with caller ID, voicemail, forwarding, conferencing, etc etc etc. More services with an 80% savings.
$50 or $250...the math is pretty G-D easy and is why Verizon and other telcos continue to bleed POTS customers. And it isn't like they're just a little more expensive...they are insanely greedy with these completely unjustifiable price increases.
I have had this account with Verizon (ex GTE) for well over 25 years and because of their greed and arrogance they will get nothing more.
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