 MurdocPremium
join:2009-02-08
Manitowoc, WI
 ·Comcast
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| its dead because no one wants to pay... Its dead because no one wants to pay those damn every 3 month phone bill increases. Seems like there raising prices to purposely loose landline customers doesnt it? Constant slush fund increases and other BS fees. Blaming higher prices on customers that cancel, thats why you lost that customer in the first place. If its SO difficult to maintain landlines att and verizon, fold the tent up and GTFO! |
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 sbrookPremium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
Ottawa
kudos:4
·TekSavvy Cable
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| You hit the nail on the head. Landline at the right price could be maintained nearly forever.
Now how much is it going to cost them to maintain the cell networks and the broadband networks to support telephony instead. Landline is dirt cheap by comparison. |
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| said by sbrook:You hit the nail on the head. Landline at the right price could be maintained nearly forever. Now how much is it going to cost them to maintain the cell networks and the broadband networks to support telephony instead. Landline is dirt cheap by comparison. Problem is the right price for AT&T/Verizon is not the right price for their mostly captive consumers.
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | AT&T has become an entitlement company. They have already received huge amounts of corporate welfare and think they are entitled to huge profits for doing next to nothing just because their name is AT&T. They don't need regulatory relief because there are no current regulations preventing them from getting out of the telecommunications business and the pockets of consumers altogether. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
·SONIC.NET
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to zoom314
said by zoom314:said by sbrook:You hit the nail on the head. Landline at the right price could be maintained nearly forever. Now how much is it going to cost them to maintain the cell networks and the broadband networks to support telephony instead. Landline is dirt cheap by comparison. Problem is the right price for AT&T/Verizon is not the right price for their mostly captive consumers. Most captive customers I know would pay a higher price for simpler billing and greater reliability - flat rate domestic service, no "inside wire maintenance" charges, no talking to foreigners in customer service or tech, no extra line items on the bill - no taxes on the bill.
Those who switch to cable voice are paying roughly $35 a month for such service, bundled. If telco would offer the same, landlines would live forever. Instead, "basic" phone service has 19 extra entries on the bill, minimum non-long-distance-usage charges, minimum late payment charges, surly customer service, intimidating repair service, and a generally not-so-helpful attitude.
POTS superior 911 functionality is still worth paying for, but even I can see that advantage waning. |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
Ottawa
kudos:4 | Well, you can be sure of one thing, as the world switches to IP telephony, the telcos and cable cos and VoIP companies will begin slathering on the "extra fees" to that service too. |
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This Guy is the true GENIUS,,, that is exactly their plan, they used the same excuse for DSL Deployment and the loss of landlines,to the cable companies. Really people dropped the second line since you could talk over Dsl and not dial up. The asked the FCC to allow them to run the CLEC's out of town. We had twenty competitors now 1 or none. wow those were the days....This company want to drop rural AMERICA over the Iphone generation. Those "future" tumor heads will destroy the unlimited internet and make us watch tv on our Icandle like a moth to the FLAME!!!!! |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
·SONIC.NET
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to sbrook
said by sbrook:Well, you can be sure of one thing, as the world switches to IP telephony, the telcos and cable cos and VoIP companies will begin slathering on the "extra fees" to that service too. No, it will be the government inducing, mandating or otherwise forcing those taxes and fees, not the alternative dialtone firms.
We've already a very famous police chief campaign, warning us of dire consequences ("laying off police") if we didn't vote to "reduce" our phone tax. That measure expanded muni utility taxes to voip, cable, sms, cellular, and . |
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