GhostDoggy
join:2005-05-11
Duluth, GA
| I feel sorry for Vonage investors
The idea of customer-premise equipment solutions to provide VoIP is going to be dated within the next 18-24 months. Several vendors are supplying DSL-based means (ADSL2+ & VDSL2) for terminating IP at the mux, making unique line-specific IP easy and affording a much easier in-home VoIP solution.
Of course, you have to be willing to deploy local-loop infrastructure such as a mux, and this is where the LECs and cableco's differ from the leach-service providers.
Imagine a similar price VoIP solution where one requires unique in-home hardware and the other does not. Vonage's days are numbered, I fear. |
WhyADuck
Premium
join:2003-03-05
1 edit | VoIP, here today, gone tomorrow?!?!
Thanks for a good laugh. It's obvious that you are parodying the "doom and gloom" naysayers of a decade ago who were absolutely convinced that this new thing called "The Internet" would be only a flash in the pan, and that within about 18-24 months people would go back to their telephones, radios, and television sets. The very idea of the average person having a personal computer in their home - how preposterous!
Of COURSE we all want to go back to the big phone companies with their high prices, hidden charges, individual fees on EVERY additional service, per-minute charges on long distance, ridiculously small local calling areas (in most parts of the country), inability to receive voicemail messages delivered via e-mail, inability to change call forwarding while we are away from home, inability to get a "city" phone number (that can be called as a local call by nearly everyone in the area) if we happen to live just a little too far out in the 'burbs, ridiculous charges and several-day waits any time we want to make even a minor change to our accounts, and rotten treatment by their customer disservice reps. Yeah, that's what we really want, 'cause we're just dumb consumers who can't abide having a little box in our homes that provides our dial tone (next thing to go will be our cable or satellite TV boxes, we're getting really sick of those things too. And who can figure out that doggone DVD player?).
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