 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
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| I'll never ditch the landline I have Comcast for my home phone.
Cell phones are good but they do have their problems, one being dropped calls and the other being E911 issues. Even though cell phones are able to transmit their location to 911, not all 911 dispatch centers have been upgraded to receive location signals from cell phones. If you call 911 on a Cell Phone from Springfield, MA the call goes to the state police dispatch in Northampton and then has to be routed to Springfield police dispatch. I have the direct number to Springfield police dispatch in my contacts and call that number instead of 911 if I witness a car accident or a suspicious person.
Being disabled with health issues I keep a landline with Comcast and I know for a fact that CDV transmits location info to 911 because it is considered a landline.
The other issue with cell phones is dropped calls. If I call a number that I know has long queue lines to talk to a CSR or is going to be a lengthy call, I call from a landline is nothing is more aggravating than waiting a half hour on hold and have the call drop (due to signal fluctuations) after the CSR comes on the line.
Also, I have an alarm system and that requires a phone line.
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I've experienced ImOn (when they were McLeod USA), Mediacom, Comcast, and Time Warner. They are much better than broadcast TV.
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Portage, IN | Everyone always bellyaches about E911. But please, FFS, how many times do you people call the cops in a day?
I can count on one hand with 3 fingers left over the number of times I've dialed the emergency services in 15 years of having a cell phone. Both times the call was routed correctly. The first time was before location services even existed on cell phones!
I just can't imagine being the type of person that has to call the police that often. It must be an exhausting existence. |
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said by IowaCowboy:...I keep a landline with Comcast ...
I hate to be "that guy", but comcast isn't a landline.
You could get any voip service these days and get E911 where you program your address into the service.
If all you want it for is the 911 location reporting then that is fine, but I would NOT trust the cable co over the phone co for reliability.
I have worked for both over the years. Trust me on that one. |
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IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
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Springfield, MA Reviews:
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| said by alfnoid:said by IowaCowboy:...I keep a landline with Comcast ...
I hate to be "that guy", but comcast isn't a landline. You could get any voip service these days and get E911 where you program your address into the service. If all you want it for is the 911 location reporting then that is fine, but I would NOT trust the cable co over the phone co for reliability. I have worked for both over the years. Trust me on that one. In the alarm industry, Comcast is considered a facilities based VoIP provider (where they use their private network as opposed to the public Internet) and the modem has a battery so it is certainly more reliable than Vonage or Skype. My alarm company says Comcast and Charter (dominant cable providers in the area) meets industry accepted reliability standards for alarm signals but they will require the installation of an AES radio box ($$$expensive) if a customer uses any other VoIP provider.
FYI: I deal with a local alarm company.
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I've experienced ImOn (when they were McLeod USA), Mediacom, Comcast, and Time Warner. They are much better than broadcast TV.
I have not and will not cut the cord. |
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911 via cell doesn't get routed correctly in this area. 911 on landline is about as useless as they don't get any location information for rural callers. If you can't tell them where you are and how to get there you are out of luck. There were plans for upgrades a few years back but they never took place. They were also suppose to give actual addresses to everyone but that hasn't happened yet.
Frontier is fairly safe with the offer as a lot of the areas they serve have little competition and spotty cell service. Sprint works the best for where I am thanks to the airave. If it wasn't for that device service would be crap from all of them. I live at a license boundary for 800 so service is very spotty by those carriers.
I actually had to call 911 last week for an abandoned car on the highway during the blizzard. Couldn't see the car until you were almost in its back seat. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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This is what I've done for a year now. Don't regret it one bit. With their free subscription, you get 40 minutes a day incoming and $.01 outgoing. Aside from the $15 porting fee, it's cost me an average of $2.31 a month (.99 DID fee, .80 E911, the rest for outgoing) |
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Comcast phone service is not the same as a traditional copper land line. |
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said by IowaCowboy:Comcast is considered a facilities based VoIP provider (where they use their private network as opposed to the public Internet)
Herein lies the difference that I was pointing out....their private network Supplies the internet in this case.
The cable network is far less reliable than a telco network.
That is all I was saying.
I could tell you horror stories about cable phone not working that simply wouldn't have happened with a telco line.
Like I said, I have worked for both (and done alarms too for that matter) and I promise you cable sucks when directly compared to telco for reliability.
They may have a million other bullet points over telco in other ways, but this is the one way they are inferior.
So call me old fashioned, but cable phone is not a landline in the traditional sense. Or at all in my mind. |
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