Why haven't telcos moved to SIP/VOIP for home service?
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@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
Nah - high speed internet is available to most anyone who lives in a city. If those people can get Netflix, they can easily get phone service over that same line. Those in more rural areas have fewer or no options toward this.
Rural area's have high speed internet too though it's pretty much only Cable, no DSL options.
Sure some, maybe even most do (frankly have no clue). But there are many that don't. I'm not sure if the laws requiring Teleco's to provide affordable phone service to rural America cover providing affordable internet access or not?
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@Jason said:
Rural area's have high speed internet too though it's pretty much only Cable, no DSL options.
The towns in rural america may have cable service or variable quality, but the farmhouses certainly do not.
Growing up in southern Illinois, I certainly felt the lack of communication.
Back in the late 80's all calls outside of town were long distance. Getting on the various BBSs was a horribly expensive endeavor, because nothing was a local call.The lack of desire by the bid red V and death star to do anything with rural america is horrible.
When I was growing up the local telco was GTE North. bought/sold/blah. Finally landed as Verizon at the time DSL was introduced at the turn of the century. Guess what. Still no DSL available there.
The local cable company in the 80's was eventually to become Charter. They did bring out internet service at the turn of the century, so pretty much everyone has it. But come 2007 Charter had never bothered to ever update the systems and service was horrible.
It drove my hometown to finally spin up their own fiber project. The local populace started the process got things on a ballot in 2009 and now they are a fiber town. It was amazing that Charter suddenly had truck all over the entire town for more than a year after the city fiber project actually had a few council hearings and was gaining traction.
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Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
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@dafyre said:
@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
My parents, lol.
Mine as well - also lots of people around here with cable modem bundles, it works out near enough to free when bundled with a big TV package & intertubes.
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@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
I do, since I still have cable and internet, it saves me money bundling and keeping the phone service. Canceling my $12/month phone would cost me $35 in bundle savings.
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@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
My parents, lol.
Mine as well - also lots of people around here with cable modem bundles, it works out near enough to free when bundled with a big TV package & intertubes.
Neither of mine. I fixed that issue years ago, they only have cell phones. My sister had a Vonage account because of young kids in the house and that I do not want to manage anything. then a few years back I converted her over to a Obi100 and a Google Voice number.
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@Dashrender said:
@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
I do, since I still have cable and internet, it saves me money bundling and keeping the phone service. Canceling my $12/month phone would cost me $35 in bundle savings.
That is super fuct.
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@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
@Dashrender said:
I do, since I still have cable and internet, it saves me money bundling and keeping the phone service. Canceling my $12/month phone would cost me $35 in bundle savings.
Get rid of the Cable service too then.
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@RojoLoco said:
@Dashrender said:
@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
I do, since I still have cable and internet, it saves me money bundling and keeping the phone service. Canceling my $12/month phone would cost me $35 in bundle savings.
That is super fuct.
My parents tried to cancel their home phone service and their bill would have gone up like that as well, so now its set to 2 rings and goes to voicemail. Nobody they want to talk to calls them on it.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
My parents tried to cancel their home phone service and their bill would have gone up like that as well, so now its set to 2 rings and goes to voicemail. Nobody they want to talk to calls them on it.
Unplug it so it can never ring then?
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@JaredBusch said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
My parents tried to cancel their home phone service and their bill would have gone up like that as well, so now its set to 2 rings and goes to voicemail. Nobody they want to talk to calls them on it.
Unplug it so it can never ring then?
I told them to do that and they won't do it, but they were fine cancelling it all together... it wasn't worth the argument, so I let them do what they wanted to do.
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@JaredBusch said:
@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
@Dashrender said:
I do, since I still have cable and internet, it saves me money bundling and keeping the phone service. Canceling my $12/month phone would cost me $35 in bundle savings.
Get rid of the Cable service too then.
The cost of being a cord cutter at this point would be nearly the same as what I pay for cable. Except I wouldn't have a DVR, and I would normally have to wait until the next day to watch a show after the normal air date (assuming Hulu Plus here - Last year, yes well over a year ago, Hulu Plus doesn't get new network shows until 24 hours after the normal station, this could be old information)
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@JaredBusch said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
My parents tried to cancel their home phone service and their bill would have gone up like that as well, so now its set to 2 rings and goes to voicemail. Nobody they want to talk to calls them on it.
Unplug it so it can never ring then?
yeah I should do that! In fact the wife gets irked when I call the house phone because her cell phone is often closer to her than the house phone, so she wouldn't have to get up to answer.
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She should keep her cell phone charged, lol.
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The same question applies to Cell Phones as well! It's time to kill the whole phone number thing and move to a modern communication system that allows free calls to whomever, where ever, assuming the other side has internet access.
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@Dashrender said:
The same question applies to Cell Phones as well! It's time to kill the whole phone number thing and move to a modern communication system that allows free calls to whomever, where ever, assuming the other side has internet access.
You would still pay for bandwidth? I know the cost of bandwidth is minimal but it still costs money to keep the power, cooling, and servers running. Not to mention the tons of corporate bureaucracy that goes along with it.
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@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@RojoLoco said:
Who has a home phone anymore? (besides my parents)
@Dashrender said:
I do, since I still have cable and internet, it saves me money bundling and keeping the phone service. Canceling my $12/month phone would cost me $35 in bundle savings.
Get rid of the Cable service too then.
The cost of being a cord cutter at this point would be nearly the same as what I pay for cable. Except I wouldn't have a DVR, and I would normally have to wait until the next day to watch a show after the normal air date (assuming Hulu Plus here - Last year, yes well over a year ago, Hulu Plus doesn't get new network shows until 24 hours after the normal station, this could be old information)
How does a one time investment in a quality outdoor antenna and then a DVR outweigh cutting the cable charge? I ask because you stated network and that implies broadcast to me. If you mean network more inclusively to include cable only channels then that depends yes.
Peronally, I pay for Netflix, Crunchyroll and Internet service. I bought a $50 HomeWorx DVR, but ended up never using it as I thought I might.
