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pabster

join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA
·Mediacom

reply to owenhome
Re: VoIP is a step down from POTS

Yeah, but it'll never happen. The telcos want POTS to subsidize their losses on the cheap entry-level DSL services. Unforunately for them, people are dropping POTS right and left which is gonna bite them in the ass down the road.

Frankly there's no reason they couldn't offer POTS service at a competitive rate to VOIP providers (the $25 per month range) with a similar set of services. After all, internally, everything is IP-based and routed over the 'net anyways.
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ifarrell

join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
·Vonage
said by pabster See Profile :

Yeah, but it'll never happen. The telcos want POTS to subsidize their losses on the cheap entry-level DSL services. Unfortunately for them, people are dropping POTS right and left which is gonna bite them in the ass down the road.

Frankly there's no reason they couldn't offer POTS service at a competitive rate to VOIP providers (the $25 per month range) with a similar set of services. After all, internally, everything is IP-based and routed over the 'net anyways.
Very true. Charging $7 or $8 per month for Caller ID (at least here it is) is a rip off.
If POTS were about $25 a month, with all you get with VoIP, I think a lot of people would have no trouble switching back.
Obviously the Phone Companies are in denial and holding their breath hoping the bad VoIP Companies will go belly up.
Vonage and Packet8 will eventually and get swallowed up by someone else but VoIP won't be going away anytime soon.
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