The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth
except for the lower price and substantially more features offered by
Vonage.

Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to see the
market place working.

JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by Vonage.

Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to see the
market place working.

I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.



I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.

JimH wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
. ..
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth
except for the lower price and substantially more features offered by
Vonage.

Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to see the
market place working.
I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their end
(they had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different
techs, all of which were from India and hard to understand.
I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone service
for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home phone is
dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and if I have a
question, an English speaker providing the answers.


I actually enjoyed being without a home phone as we have cell phones. The
only reason we have a house phone is Mrs.H.




Ahh, well, we're out in the boonies, with lots of rolling hills and
property owners who are not fans of cell towers, so cell coverage in the
immediate area of our house is not so good. It improves if I walk
outdoors, but right now it is about 18F and snowy...so...

We have Verizon cell, which is pretty good, generally, in this metro
area and in those cities we visit a lot for pleasure or business. I had
AT&T in one of its previous iterations for a while, but found its
coverage outside of the downtown area sucked. Worse, AT&T was not a
pleasant company with which to deal because no one was here...they were
all over there, in India. Screw 'em.

On Dec 6, 10:48 am, HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by Vonage.

Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to see the
market place working.

I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.

I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I am with you on this one. My partner has wanted to try VOIP, but I
have business peers who use it and it sucks. I consider any business
that uses VOIP over hardwire, cheap and unprofessional. I don't
wan,wan,wan,wan.wan.wan.wan.wan.t to,o,o,o,o,o,o,o, hear this ****
when I am talking to a business contact, and my clients never will
from me either

wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:48 am, HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by Vonage.
Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to see the
market place working.
I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.
I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I am with you on this one. My partner has wanted to try VOIP, but I
have business peers who use it and it sucks. I consider any business
that uses VOIP over hardwire, cheap and unprofessional. I don't
wan,wan,wan,wan.wan.wan.wan.wan.t to,o,o,o,o,o,o,o, hear this ****
when I am talking to a business contact, and my clients never will
from me either


Sadly, it usually is easy to tell when the caller is using VOIP.

JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by Vonage.

Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to see the
market place working.

I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.



That seems to be the biggest complaint, if you have to use their India
CS, it is a pain. I haven't had to call them since I set my system up.

HK wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:48 am, HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for
a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth
except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by Vonage.
Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to
see the
market place working.
I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their
end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different
techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.
I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.- Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I am with you on this one. My partner has wanted to try VOIP, but I
have business peers who use it and it sucks. I consider any business
that uses VOIP over hardwire, cheap and unprofessional. I don't
wan,wan,wan,wan.wan.wan.wan.wan.t to,o,o,o,o,o,o,o, hear this ****
when I am talking to a business contact, and my clients never will
from me either


Sadly, it usually is easy to tell when the caller is using VOIP.

It is only a problem if they are limited on broadband upload and/or
download. On Comcast, there is not difference on either end.

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:48 am, HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in
message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for
a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and
BellSouth except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by
Vonage.
Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to
see the
market place working.
I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to
resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their
end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different
techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.
I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and
if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.- Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I am with you on this one. My partner has wanted to try VOIP, but I
have business peers who use it and it sucks. I consider any business
that uses VOIP over hardwire, cheap and unprofessional. I don't
wan,wan,wan,wan.wan.wan.wan.wan.t to,o,o,o,o,o,o,o, hear this ****
when I am talking to a business contact, and my clients never will
from me either


Sadly, it usually is easy to tell when the caller is using VOIP.

It is only a problem if they are limited on broadband upload and/or
download. On Comcast, there is not difference on either end.


Please provide that portion of your C.V. that demonstrates your
competence to make such a statement.

On Dec 6, 11:21 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
HK wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:48 am, HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage for
a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and BellSouth
except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by Vonage.
Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to
see the
market place working.
I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their
end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different
techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.
I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.- Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I am with you on this one. My partner has wanted to try VOIP, but I
have business peers who use it and it sucks. I consider any business
that uses VOIP over hardwire, cheap and unprofessional. I don't
wan,wan,wan,wan.wan.wan.wan.wan.t to,o,o,o,o,o,o,o, hear this ****
when I am talking to a business contact, and my clients never will
from me either

Sadly, it usually is easy to tell when the caller is using VOIP.

It is only a problem if they are limited on broadband upload and/or
download. On Comcast, there is not difference on either end.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

At your NOC maybe. Problems with my bud who uses tampabay.rr.com
(roadrunner?) the problems are rare, and he has a business connection
(read lot's of bucks), but frequent enough to make it a pain in the
ass. He does however use a hardwire for most of his client contact too.

HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:48 am, HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in
message
...
The power of competition is amazing. I have been using Vonage
for a few
years, and can not tell the difference between Vonage and
BellSouth except
for the lower price and substantially more features offered by
Vonage.
Today, I got an offer in the mail from AT&T offering VOIP and
similar
features at the same price as Vonage. As long as Vonage
continues to
provides excellent service, I will not change, but it is nice to
see the
market place working.
I spent an afternoon of grief with Vonage yesterday trying to
resolve a
modem problem (no dial tone). It was eventually fixed on their
end (they
had to reconfigure a port) but only after dealing with 4 different
techs,
all of which were from India and hard to understand.
I haven't heard or seen a single reason to drop my hardwired phone
service for VOIP. Being an old-fashioned O.F., all I want from my home
phone is dial tone 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the time and
if I
have a question, an English speaker providing the answers.- Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I am with you on this one. My partner has wanted to try VOIP, but I
have business peers who use it and it sucks. I consider any business
that uses VOIP over hardwire, cheap and unprofessional. I don't
wan,wan,wan,wan.wan.wan.wan.wan.t to,o,o,o,o,o,o,o, hear this ****
when I am talking to a business contact, and my clients never will
from me either


Sadly, it usually is easy to tell when the caller is using VOIP.

It is only a problem if they are limited on broadband upload and/or
download. On Comcast, there is not difference on either end.


Please provide that portion of your C.V. that demonstrates your
competence to make such a statement.

LOL, Harry you are way too sensitive today. Relax.