  jamez818please hold during the silence
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Sunland, CA | Feeling Jazzy! I wonder if they will make a commercial with that "I'm to sexy" song.
How much it will cost? | |
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 |  Logan 5Enjoying the CataclysmPremium,MVM
join:2001-05-25
Austin, TX
kudos:7
1 edit | Re: Feeling Jazzy! said by jamez818:I wonder if they will make a commercial with that "I'm to sexy" song. I certainly hope not.
Why anyone would want this service which will likely cost more then traditional POTS anyway because of all the extra 'features' is the question to ask.
If you want to make broadband phone calls go get a VOIP provider.
"Sexing up" the failing POTS revenue stream/business model is EXACTLY what's happening here and lord help ya if you ever need to make an E911 call...
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|  kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY | said by jamez818:I wonder if they will make a commercial with that "I'm to sexy" song. How much it will cost? You mean "I'm too sexy"?  From Right Said Fred...  | |
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| | jamez818please hold during the silence
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Sunland, CA | Re: Feeling Jazzy! Ya that one, I'm too sexy for my pots line. | |
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| | SO..... insert Yawn Here. | |
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|  dg2Premium
join:2004-01-22
Lowell, AR | Re: SO..... *yawn*
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1 edit | Jump from one STUPID idea to another... the NEW at&t (notice small caps for the comapny) is jumping from one STUPID idea to the next.. someday they will look at at&t, the failure like the tobacco industry, broken and overtaxed.. how about a voip line with pots elements (like over-pricing and taxes) hmmm, GOOD IDEA! let's try it, get millions of dollars in advertising and call it jazz..
Really, its not jazz its "azz"inine, except the person who wrote the "zz" was dyslexic...
Probably the jerk who came up with the idea will get a multimillion dollar bonus, too! You can fail and still be a millionaire.. these days, fake your resume and people love you more, drive drunk-- no problem! become the president of the free world! America, land of the hypocracy! We only produce outsourcing, self indulgence, and stupid people. | |
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|  2kmaroThinkPremium,ExMod 1 BC
join:2000-07-11
ColossalCave | Re: Jump from one STUPID idea to another... said by jumpfromonne :
We only produce ... self indulgence, and stupid people.
Speaking from experience, are we?
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...then THINK! again!! | |
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|  RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | Yup Bill, you are right. | |
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| audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI | Verizon and The New at&t are coming up with these products because:
1 VoIP is keeping the smaller telcos alive.
2 The big 3 evil Bells are trying to kill VoIP and run the smaller telcos that are providing the facilities for VoIP resellers( Vonage and others) out of business.
3 the FCC dropped the ball by half ruling that VoIP is data so no state regulation but reserved power to rule late if calls starting in VoIP and ending wireless, POTS or VoIP are due more than the ISP rate of $0.0007 per minute for termination fees in the Telco world. So the 3 Bells are trying to charge VoIP Telcos long distance fees for a VoIP call that originate in NY, NY and terminate in Boston. This is coming to a head soon as one of the small Telcos are going to fight the invoices in Federal Court within the next year to force the FCC to complete the ruling. Everyone thought it was going to be AT&T but now they are THE NEW at&t. | |
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| | | | Re: Jump from one STUPID idea to another... With all the marketshare voip has, calls within any one territory will not bankrupt voip companies (even if it were the draconian price of .25 per minute). Only one rboc has the power to compete with voip or anything else that comes down the pike from cable companies, a-la docis, wired or wireless- Verizon. The other rbocs are too disorganized and weak to compete with new -significant- buildouts of broadband-wireless, vdsl, or fiber. Mergers could change this dynamic, but not likely. (bellsouth/qwest linkup? at&t/qwest?, at&t/bellsouth?, who knows)
Market forces will 'override' rboc attempts at QOS and metering division/partition of the internet. This is not to say there won't be significant bumps along the road, or lack of a road/roadmap altogether. Rbocs know this, but can try to shape the path to their liking or waste energy trying to fight against the status-quo (initially the latter). Laggy deployment of dsl is finally a matter of public record. Now that Verizon has the green light for FTTP, the only 'leash' left is the threat of re-regulation (of wired)/deregulation (of wirless). Voip & competitive wired/wireless services will shape the future, the fcc can only hope Verizon and other rbocs 'play nice'.
Not all areas of the U.S.A. are ready for hundreds of megabits of access "per subscriber" on a residental level, and I suspect won't be for at least 10+years (as the market forces are just not 'there'). This is unfortunate. There will be many re-alignments, and I suspect some cable/media companies will merge with robc(s) to create the scale necessary and will meet with resistance (a-la Dubai ports World/Ma-Bell dejavu).
AT&T is stalling for time.. to figure out how to deploy a futureproof network without succumbing to a company identity crisis similar to Time Warner/Aol. Floating different trial-balloons all-the-while. Honestly, how many of these similar press releases have we seen in the past 5 years from the former and new(some would say not improved) AT&T? | |
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 GlenQuagmireGiggidy Giggidy Giggidy GooPremium
join:2004-02-16
Grand Rapids, MI |  Sexy POTS
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|  CjaicemanPremium,MVM
join:2004-10-12
Parker, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Sexy POTS I say screw the whole POTS AND VOIP thing, I just use my cell. I have way more minutes than I use, and I have rollover from Cingular so I get to keep my minutes that I don't use incase one month I have a lot of usage. My phone remains on my desk or charger because I also use a bluetooth headset so I'm im not injecting my head with cellular signals all the time  Although I have thought of wearing a tinfoil hat just incase.... JK! :p:D:) | |
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| |  pcscdmaChocobo Chocobo Random BattlePremium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA | Re: Sexy POTS said by Cjaiceman:I say screw the whole POTS AND VOIP thing, I just use my cell. So you screw the cell as well? | |
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| |  atangelNow What??Premium
join:2002-02-18
Bronx, NY | Heck, ever since vonage, I got to cut my cell costs dramtaically too... I don't need all those bells and whistles.. saving a ton of money now.... | |
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| | | | This is an extremely risky proposition. Every time a disaster strikes (and this seems to be happening more often these days) the first service to go out is cellular. Don't expect to be able to use the cell phone when you really need it. VoIP/IM and especially POTS have proven much more reliable when a city is under 8 feet of water and mud, or when 110-story buildings are collapsing on 5 city blocks. We always pay dearly when we are cheap and ignorant.
Have you checked to see what Bluetooth radiation does to your brain and how it compares to "cellular" signals? | |
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| | | | | Re: Sexy POTS wonder why they dont link cell with pots with the same number so cell and pots be include with the price of pots
if one goes out you still have the other | |
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| | | | | Actually, the 110 story buildings wiped out the POTS infrastructure for a pretty decent radius, seeing as the COs were below them. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Sexy POTS ...and about a week later there were disaster recovery trailers parked on the Jersey side plugged in and serving those customers. It is how the NYSE came to live so quickly. That was one of those rare moments when Verizon and AT&T collaborated and did almost the impossible, even though AT&T only lost one 5ESS in the World Financial Center due to overheating. The batteries and generators kicked in and did power the switch, however they did not power the AC and no one could get to it for a while. | |
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| | | | If it wasn't for kids and having to make cheap calls to Japan (my wife is from there) then I would just have a cell. We both have Cingular and I have 3500 rollover minutes saved up, which they would allow you to sell these back or something I have the 1000 min superhome plan and pay about $60 after tax thru my employers national discount of like 17% I can't find any cellular that's cheaper and my sunrocket calls to Japan are $10 a month for 200 min. 3 cents a minute after that. We were going to use Skype but its been awful to Japan. Never connects right. Oh well at least I tried, Same price anyway and I can use any phone in the house. Go sunrocket and cingular (Verizon was $10 more a month for the 700 min with no rollover) | |
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| jamez818please hold during the silence
join:2000-09-18
Sunland, CA | OMG that was funny! | |
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| | just get vonage might as well get vonage.
will pots price ever go as low as voip | |
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|  wnorman
join:2002-01-30
Macclenny, FL | Re: just get vonage ..Will VOIP eventually cost as much as POTS? It will when enough POTS customers switch over to VOIP, and the tax dollars take a hit. | |
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| |  scoobyPremium
join:2001-05-01
Schaumburg, IL
kudos:1 | Re: just get vonage More people are moving to cellular only rather then voip only or voip/cellular only. If they start taxing it like pots I feel most who own a cell phone will ditch voip. | |
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| | | | | Re: just get vonage all these sex-up tease...just get Naked already! (naked DSL) | |
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| | | | | | naked is the way to go I agree, one of the stipulations that the fcc put on both SBC and Verizon before agreeing to their mergers is that they will both have to offer naked DSL within a certain time frame after the merger was complete. I work for SBC (oh im sorry the new at&t) so I guess look for it in the near future. | |
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| | This is by no means stupid for ATT. This actually solves their E911 problem simply. Also, this leverages their past investments into future technology. This gives Parents a reason to convert safely to a VOIP technology while still having the safety of 911. | |
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