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Al Bundy
Lucas wrote:
> Get with the Newest Phone Technology called VOIP (Voice Over IP)!
> Save up to 80% off your phone bill.
> Features:
> Same Quality Phone Service from Home
> - Call Anywhere in US & Canada Unlimited, Only $14.95 per mo.
> - Get your regular phone features: voice mail, caller id etc..at no extra
> cost!
> - All you need is DSL or Cable Internet. That's it!
> - Eliminate the Phone Company and Save Bigtime!
I'm saving a lot more by not paying the $14.95, the $50 cable, and
ontold phone calls.
Gordon
> Get with the Newest Phone Technology called VOIP (Voice Over IP)!
> Save up to 80% off your phone bill.
>
As if this group hasn't already heard about VOIP.
George Grapman
And as if we did not know that quality can be erratic. I might
consider using it for personal stuff but never for business.
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Anthony Matonak
> Get with the Newest Phone Technology called VOIP (Voice Over IP)!
> Save up to 80% off your phone bill.
Just to pick the nit, you aren't eliminating the phone company.
You are just choosing a different phone company.
Anthony
George Grapman
Lena
George Grapman wrote:
> P.S. What happens when you lose your internet connection?
Calls are automatically forwarded to another preselected number, your
cellphone perhaps. Same thing happens if power goes out.
Lena
Lena
George Grapman wrote:
> ... quality can be erratic.
After reading many reviews on the major VOIP providers (Vonage, AT&T,
Verizon) I chose AT&T's CallVantage. Not the cheapest, but the service
and call quality has been excellent. But I'm only two months with the
service; time will tell if problems creep up.
BTW, using CallVantage with Verizon FiOS. Plenty of speed for the
VOIP.
Lena
George Grapman
George Grapman
not risk any problems.
Lena
George Grapman wrote:
> How do I make outgoing calls when I lose my connection?
You can't. Just like you can't if your landline failed. Granted, a
rare event for a landline to fail, but if you have a cellphone for a
backup, it's not as big a problem. If you have all cordless phones,
and the power goes out, you can't use a landline until you drag out an
old corded phone.
On the same scale, if you ran out of gas in your car, how would you get
anywhere? But if you have a horse, you wouldn't have to worry about
running out of gas. So don't give up the horse for the car, and don't
give up the landline for VOIP. It's too risky.
Lena
Bob Ward
<sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote:
>Lena wrote:
>> George Grapman wrote:
>>> P.S. What happens when you lose your internet connection?
>>
>> Calls are automatically forwarded to another preselected number, your
>> cellphone perhaps. Same thing happens if power goes out.
>>
>> Lena
>>
> How do I make outgoing calls when I lose my connection?
How important are the calls?
If it's urgent, and can't wait, use your cellphone.
George Grapman
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:27:29 GMT, George Grapman
> <sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote:
>
>> Lena wrote:
>>> George Grapman wrote:
>>>> P.S. What happens when you lose your internet connection?
>>> Calls are automatically forwarded to another preselected number, your
>>> cellphone perhaps. Same thing happens if power goes out.
>>>
>>> Lena
>>>
>> How do I make outgoing calls when I lose my connection?
>
> How important are the calls?
I make my living doing it.
>
> If it's urgent, and can't wait, use your cellphone.
I use the cell as a call back number.
Bob Ward
<sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote:
>Bob Ward wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:27:29 GMT, George Grapman
>> <sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Lena wrote:
>>>> George Grapman wrote:
>>>>> P.S. What happens when you lose your internet connection?
>>>> Calls are automatically forwarded to another preselected number, your
>>>> cellphone perhaps. Same thing happens if power goes out.
>>>>
>>>> Lena
>>>>
>>> How do I make outgoing calls when I lose my connection?
>>
>> How important are the calls?
>
> I make my living doing it.
>>
>> If it's urgent, and can't wait, use your cellphone.
>
> I use the cell as a call back number.
The problem with common sense is that it isn't.
Maynooth
"Lucas" <shan...@msn.com> wrote in message
news:LUaog.903$6e6...@fe08.lga...
Doesn't VOIP from a company other than the firm that provides your broadband
eats at your bandwidth?
Bob Ward
wrote:
Only when you are on the phone...
Lena
Maynooth wrote:
> Doesn't VOIP from a company other than the firm that provides your broadband
> eats at your bandwidth?
I'm told about 90K worth. So if you have 700K DSL, or 5M VOIP, why
would there be a problem?
Lena
rick++
Don't worry.
Governement is working hard to add all those nasty fees
to internet phone service. Sometimes thse are as much
as third of the bill. At least they finally ended the 105 year
old telephone luxury tax to pay for the spanish-american war.
Brian Attwood
> On the same scale, if you ran out of gas in your car, how would you get
> anywhere? But if you have a horse, you wouldn't have to worry about
> running out of gas. So don't give up the horse for the car, and don't
> give up the landline for VOIP. It's too risky.
>
This is a silly analogy because VOIP is hardly a great leap forward in
technology or convenience over traditional landline service like a car
is compared to a horse. For most users, the only advantage to VOIP is
cost, so it becomes a tradeoff between reliability/quality versus cost.
For me, since I can't get DSL without phone service, it is still
cheaper anyway to stick with my DSL "Lite" and the basic phone service
(with the cell for LD) than it is to switch to cable based internet and
VOIP.
Bob Ward
And it has nothing whatsoever to do with your choice of provider.
Cary Seller
"George Grapman" <sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote in message
news:c2log.161077$F_3....@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
> Gordon wrote:
>> "Lucas" <shan...@msn.com> wrote in news:LUaog.903$6e6...@fe08.lga:
>>
>>> Get with the Newest Phone Technology called VOIP (Voice Over IP)!
>>> Save up to 80% off your phone bill.
>>>
>>
>> As if this group hasn't already heard about VOIP.
>
>
> And as if we did not know that quality can be erratic. I might consider
> using it for personal stuff but never for business.
>
>
Having had such phone service (with two different providers) for over a
year, I beg to defer on the quality issue. Guess, it depends on how you
define "quality". I've captured some thoughts at
http://sunrocket.webhop.net/.