Why haven't telcos moved to SIP/VOIP for home service?
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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.
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@JaredBusch said:
@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.
HD Antennas work great... except when you live in an area with mountains (look up the Catskills and Appalachians). Around here it is difficult to get those channels as many towns are at the bottom of glacial valleys.
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@coliver said:
HD Antennas work great... except when you live in an area with mountains (look up the Catskills and Appalachians). Around here it is difficult to get those channels as many towns are at the bottom of glacial valleys.
I've been through them and understand there will always be exceptions. but the general situation is mot certainly not that.
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@JaredBusch said:
@coliver said:
HD Antennas work great... except when you live in an area with mountains (look up the Catskills and Appalachians). Around here it is difficult to get those channels as many towns are at the bottom of glacial valleys.
I've been through them and understand there will always be exceptions. but the general situation is mot certainly not that.
Agreed. It is just an exception. I'm sure in the midwest, south, and west of the Rockies this isn't an issue.... so basically everywhere in the US but the Northeast.
That's also not to say that we don't get HD channels... but you can go over toward Syracuse or south toward New York City and get 50-60... around here we may get 2-3.
