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|  [VoicePulse] VoicePulse Plans Video Phone Service
JAMESBURG, N.J., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- VoicePulse Inc. today announced plans to enhance the consumer's telephone experience by incorporating videophone service into their existing Voice-over-IP service in the second half of 2005. With the recent widespread use of camera and video-enhanced mobile phones, company executives believe videophones in the home are the next logical step.
Videophone service allows callers to both see and hear the other parties while carrying on a conversation. Until recently, the prohibitive cost of videophone equipment has prevented increased use in the residential market.
"We've always built our service with the intention of providing a huge array of new features, including video", said Ravi Sakaria, President & CEO of VoicePulse, "Our plans to support videophones are in line with our efforts to lead the industry in innovation."
The VoicePulse Broadband Phone Service has earned the PC World Best Buy award and PC Magazine's VoIP Provider of the Year compared to services including Vonage's DigitalVoice and AT&T's CallVantage. |
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dssman
join:2003-10-17 | Re: [VoicePulse] VoicePulse Plans Video Phone Serv
Better they should focus on making their voice services more reliable with less down time. |
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Trimline
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join:2004-10-24
Orlando, FL
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 ·AT&T Southeast
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| True VP does have downtime, but I track them with Peregrine's ServiceCenter. They currently are running an up-time of 99.9 percent for the last quarter (outages are tracked).
With that said, I was seriously considering tracking all of the other major providers and running statistics on a monthly basis and posting them somewhere. What I would need is a representative from each provider to do so.
Might be interesting. 
By the way, good show VP. I'm ready for my close-up!  |
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dssman
join:2003-10-17
| 99.9 percent sounds high, but even given that, most people have little tolerance for their home or business phone having any downtime. With cellphones, it's expected. But in my 40+ years, I've only experienced a problem with my landline once; and that was for a very short time due to a bad storm. Perhaps I've been spoiled, but POTS has been rock solid as far as I'm concerned. VoicePulse has not. I guess it will take some time for customers transitioning from POTS to VOIP to "get used to" some downtime, while at the same time I hope and expect that VOIP will improve dramatically. |
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digiblur
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join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| said by dssman  :99.9 percent sounds high, but even given that, most people have little tolerance for their home or business phone having any downtime. With cellphones, it's expected. But in my 40+ years, I've only experienced a problem with my landline once; and that was for a very short time due to a bad storm. Perhaps I've been spoiled, but POTS has been rock solid as far as I'm concerned. VoicePulse has not. I guess it will take some time for customers transitioning from POTS to VOIP to "get used to" some downtime, while at the same time I hope and expect that VOIP will improve dramatically. Guess it all depends on the person. I've had less problems with VoicePulse than I've had with BellSouth POTS service. Everytime it rained the line would either not work, start buzzing like crazy, and the caller ID would show data error. By the time BellSouth got there the line would be working fine. I was very happy to cancel with them over a year ago. |
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PCInTech
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join:2004-06-07
Massena, NY
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| said by digiblur :Guess it all depends on the person. I've had less problems with VoicePulse than I've had with BellSouth POTS service. Everytime it rained the line would either not work, start buzzing like crazy, and the caller ID would show data error. By the time BellSouth got there the line would be working fine. I was very happy to cancel with them over a year ago. Amen to that, brother. I'm very happy to have ditched Verizon a year ago for the very same reasons. The phones in our rural area of Northern NY State (No folks, not ALL of the fairly large State of New York is within walking distance of New York City!) work when they feel like it. When they do, there's enormous static, dropped calls, oil-drum-like echo, etc. Most of the copper on the poles here date to the 1920's.
This video phone thing is very exciting. If we DO get it, I can call Digiblur and we can watch each other watching each other talking on the phone while watching someone watch someone talking on the phone... Damn! The possibilities are endless.... :D:D |
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iZ
join:2000-07-19
Cedarhurst, NY | reply to videophone
Do they mention any pricing for this option? or do you think it will be included with the current plans?
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iz |
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Trimline
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join:2004-10-24
Orlando, FL
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·AT&T Southeast
·RoadRunner Cable
| It is typically an "equipment" purchase similar to that of Packet8. Using a videophone should have nothing to do with your type of plan. It just rides on the IP network.
Knowing VP, they are probably getting a "bundled" deal from a videophone manufacturer for their users at a very good $$ rate. Regarding plans, they'll probably have a discounted equipment if you sign-up for XX amount of months at $XX.00.
VoicePulse is known for their features and functionality that other VoIP just can't measure up to yet. Knowing that, I'll bet they'll continue their well deserved feature recognition for such things as Video voice mail and the like.
Sounds like fun to me 
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innoman
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I love my voicepulse service! But I want to know if this is like when they announced they were going to have encrypted services. They certainly never made that a reality. For a while, VP was all about coming up with innovative services and features. But they seem to have stopped. I can't really complain, they do have the most features I think. But they could work on bettering them I think. And coming out with what they said they had on the way months ago. Actually I almost want to think over a year ago. (The encryption.) They haven't even updated the firmware since 1.0.33 in the Sipura units. Just my rant.... I stiill love my service. And I am going to keep it for a while most likely....
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imcdona
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Tacoma, WA
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Now is the time for VoIP providers to interconnect.....Without interconnection agreements you won't be able to make a video call from say VP to Vonage or Packet 8. Not to mention the cost savings for all providers involved as the call would be pure IP as opposed to hopping off on the PSTN.
IAM |
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innoman
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Raleigh, NC
clubs: | I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU IAM!!!:):):):)
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Bert Sierra
join:2004-09-14
Prescott, AZ
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said by dssman :99.9 percent sounds high, but even given that, most people have little tolerance for their home or business phone having any downtime. I agree with dssman. Do the math -- 99.9% uptime corresponds to your phone line being down an average of ten minutes each week. For phone service, that's not acceptable. If the figure is actually 99.99% or 99.999%, then that's a different story.
PS -- See also the thread on Vonage's planned videoconferencing technology at »[Vonage] Vonage Plans Video Phone Service -- and on news.com at »news.com.com/Vonage+goes+to+the+···241.html
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Bert Sierra • Tempered MicroDesigns • Prescott, AZ |
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WhyADuck
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join:2003-03-05
| I guess it depends on the person - downtime of only ten minutes a week doesn't sound all that bad to me, especially if it usually happens in the middle of the night (I'm assuming at least some of that downtime is switch reboots, etc. that would hopefully be done at 4 AM or something like that).
A few years ago when I was using dialup internet service, I used to be online late at night quite often, and every so often (maybe several times a year) the phone service would go out at almost exactly 2 AM and stay out for maybe 20 minutes, give or take a few. I always figured it was the local phone company doing software reloads or some other form of scheduled maintenance. Of course, had anyone had an emergency during that time the switch was offline, they would have been out of luck. I think sometimes people have the belief that wireline phone service is a lot more reliable than it really is. |
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