pandora
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join:2001-06-01
Outland
 ·Comcast
|  Is AT&T is milking POTS users?
I've got POTS service, and feel AT&T is squeezing me. It'd be less expensive to move my POTS lines to wireless. Does AT&T expect to just milk POTS users forever with high prices and poor service?
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN | Well.. Its worked so far no?  |
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morbo
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said by pandora  :Does AT&T expect to just milk POTS users forever with high prices and poor service? simply put: yes. they will continue the milking until the cow is dry.
i recommend you leave for greener pastures (voip or wireless only). |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | reply to pandora
Yes. America, home of $10/mo Caller ID. Remember a prepaid cellphone can be cheaper than $10/mo based on usage. |
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alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA
|  reply to pandora
Just because you have a Copper Line doesn't mean you have "Plain Old Telephone Service." What AT&T is doing, is squeezing everything it can from it's Copper Infrastructure. I think this was a bad decision on AT&T's part. FTTH is the way of the Future! |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
·VoiceEclipse
| said by alchav :Just because you have a Copper Line doesn't mean you have "Plain Old Telephone Service." What AT&T is doing, is squeezing everything it can from it's Copper Infrastructure. I think this was a bad decision on AT&T's part. FTTH is the way of the Future! Yep.. you would think someone would have been paying attention when Sprints ION died before it left the ground. No, they DID see it through. Yes, they had turned up a few customers. Yes, it was installed nationwide in over 200 major pop's. Then 2bil in the hole. BANG! Pull the plug and it was all down hill from there. Now gotta wonder, if WiMAX will be Wireless's ION? Bottom line, you can get only so much water from a sponge. Think AT&T was a little late to the party on this one.  |
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| said by tc1uscg :Yep.. you would think someone would have been paying attention when Sprints ION died before it left the ground. No, they DID see it through. Yes, they had turned up a few customers. Yes, it was installed nationwide in over 200 major pop's. What was Sprint ION?
What were its useful features? |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| reply to patcat88
Barely, since they set a minimum charge of 1 dollar per each day you use the phone. So one call a day, that may be 30-60 minutes a month of calling will at minimum cost you 30 bucks. It was was actually per minute that same amount of calling would cost only 7.50-15 a month at 25 cents a minute. So prepaid doesn't work for anything but 100% emergency usage. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Depends on usage and carrier selected. Pretty obvious.
»www.cellguru.net/prepaid_compare.htm
A couple $5 or less per month no usage plans. |
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Camelot One
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join:2001-11-21
Austin, TX
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said by insomniac84 :Barely, since they set a minimum charge of 1 dollar per each day you use the phone. So one call a day, that may be 30-60 minutes a month of calling will at minimum cost you 30 bucks. It was was actually per minute that same amount of calling would cost only 7.50-15 a month at 25 cents a minute. So prepaid doesn't work for anything but 100% emergency usage. Oddly enough, it's only AT&T's prepaid wireless that has that stupid per day access charge. I'm on VirginMobile, if I wanted to I could buy the $90 minute pack once a year, and pay 18c a minute. They have other options as well, it's certainly not $30 a month just to HAVE the phone.
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
·VoiceEclipse
| reply to Ulmo
What was Sprint ION?
What were its useful features?
What was ION? Here's some good links
»telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_···nts_ion/
»www.networkworld.com/archive/200···001.html
and
»findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m···53592903
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disc
join:2005-12-31
Raleigh, NC
| reply to patcat88
Great web page. I used that one recently in deciding to get my daughter set up with AirVoice. |
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morbo
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said by insomniac84 :Barely, since they set a minimum charge of 1 dollar per each day you use the phone. t-mobile prepaid is as low as 10 cents a minute. if you buy $100 (1000 minutes) and attain "gold" status, your number and minutes do not expire for 1 year.
prepaid works if you use the right provider. at&t prepaid doesn't make sense. |
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