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wistlo
join:2003-01-04
New Orleans, LA Reviews:
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| "traditional" VOIP The new VOIP services are priced and set up to replace land lines, function for function and dollar for dollar.
The part of VOIP that many fear will die is the marketplace of small providers that provide phenomenal service and much richer feature sets for a fraction of big telco's prices. Ironically, these smaller providers are older and could be described as "traditional VOIP" when compared to the new services being bundled with expensive telco entertainment packages. CallVantage is (and soon to be, was) one example of "traditional" VOIP.
Fortunately there do seem to be some survivors out there, like Voipo and Ooma. (I am personally very pleased with VoipO's service). | |
| said by wistlo:The new VOIP services are priced and set up to replace land lines, function for function and dollar for dollar. The part of VOIP that many fear will die is the marketplace of small providers that provide phenomenal service and much richer feature sets for a fraction of big telco's prices. Ironically, these smaller providers are older and could be described as "traditional VOIP" when compared to the new services being bundled with expensive telco entertainment packages. CallVantage is (and soon to be, was) one example of "traditional" VOIP. Fortunately there do seem to be some survivors out there, like Voipo and Ooma. (I am personally very pleased with VoipO's service). CallVantage was also run by AT&T employees that knew what they were doing (the old AT&T employees not SBC robots). The problem with most indie VOIP cos is they have no clue what they are doing. Porting a number takes 3 weeks or longer? They probably don't know what number pooling is either. Porting from cell to cell co is supposed to be 24hrs-2 days. 99% port in 24 hrs from another Cell co. It really is supposed to be 7 days from a Lec to someone else.
But, except for the techies, Cable's VOIP will do fine. Comcast went to #1 in what a year or so? Cox is killing BellSouth probably taking 50% of their landlines. I dumped the Telco and saved $20 a month. And, I get a $10 break on the HSI. $30 savings a month adds up to $360 a year.
And, Google voice is free, simple, and free. Voice is going to be free eventually or almost free. As Google rightly says, it is just data. | |
| said by cameronsfx:And, Google voice is free, simple, and free. Google, however, doesn't actually provide phone service; and there's no evidence yet that Google ever will... I'm still hopin', though, that they will... eventually.
said by cameronsfx:Voice is going to be free eventually or almost free. As Google rightly says, it is just data. Not if the "phone" companies--whether telco or cableco--and their stooges in the govt. have anything to say about it. Yeah, just data... so why is it you have to pay into the Universal Slush Fund, as well as other "fees", for "just data"? | |
patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to cameronsfx
said by cameronsfx:And, Google voice is free, simple, and free. Voice is going to be free eventually or almost free. As Google rightly says, it is just data. Data doesn't have PSTN CALEA and E911. | |
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