[138139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Feb 28 14:18:34 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1102281355180.6008@zed.bithose.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:15:44 +0000
To: Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 28 Feb 2011, at 19:03, Jameel Akari wrote:
> Sounds very different indeed. In the US, it's basically "your local =
Ma Bell derivative, or something not-POTs." Anecodtally, as of this =
morning we just dropped one of our POTS lines for the cable company's =
alternative. Cost dropped from $69/mo to $29/mo right there.
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> With say, Verizon POTS you're looking at nearly $30/mo just for =
dialtone, with everything else (outbound calls, LD, caller ID...) extra. =
Now there is some added value in real POTS, but it's awfully hard to =
justify the cost difference.
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> Jameel Akari
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Yeah I am thankful for the competition we have over here now!
I think that if I were 'over there' then I would be using VoIP as well.
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Leigh Porter
