Re: But lets see their retention in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r12799510 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:16:42 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:16:42 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13006305 dibbb : I must have mis-read your post, I understand what you're saying now.

:)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13006305 Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:11:22 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13004884 tommytomtom : Well damn! Of course I know Vonnage is VOIP. My point was that I want the backup that a cell phone provides. Believe it or not, sometimes my cable goes out.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13004884 Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:01:48 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12799510 sbhusted : I think his intent was to say that he uses Vonage, but he would never consider using VOIP if he didn't have cell service as a backup.
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Scott B. Husted »www.Husted.cc]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12799510 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:41:11 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12796660 dibbb : tommytomtom - uhhh, did you know that Vonage IS VoIP?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12796660 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:25:49 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12796318 dddane : i disagree... people are dropping their POTS by the thousands... it has little to do with voip though, and more to do with cell phone usage. a lot of people have no use for a landline even... and i can hardly imagine someone paying for a cell phone, POTS, *and* VoIP line... if they're paying for VOIP its probably a guarantee that they'll be dropping their POTS]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12796318 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:50:53 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12795110 tommytomtom :
said by starstuff See Profile:

said by NewLife See Profile:

I would love to revisit this article in about 6 months to see their retention percent. Sure almost anyone with a new service can add tons of users during a period of time, but the real profits don't start until you have retention of those customers.
Right now probably VOIP is not mature enough to drop your POTS but eventually as VOIP matures to a more robust service people will drop their land lines. Telcos will be the biggest losers if they don't adapt fast enough to the changing market.

11K/week = 572K/year wow! half a million users just for TW... I wonder how Vonage, Packet8 and others are doing?

Not good news for the telcos :(
I use Vonage. Without a cell phone, I would not consider using VOIP.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12795110 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:54:43 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12794859 Dryvlyne :
said by starstuff See Profile:

Right now probably VOIP is not mature enough to drop your POTS but eventually as VOIP matures to a more robust service people will drop their land lines. Telcos will be the biggest losers if they don't adapt fast enough to the changing market.

11K/week = 572K/year wow! half a million users just for TW... I wonder how Vonage, Packet8 and others are doing?

Not good news for the telcos :(
I would actually say that VoIP is mature enough right now. I don't believe broadband is mature enough IMO. Sure, the speeds are there, but reliability and penetration of broadband is what is hurting the VoIP providers, not the VoIP services themselves.

I too am a subscriber to Vonage and love the service! Unfortunately though my recent ISP, Adelphia, kept having outages all of the time which also meant I didn't have a working phone. I have since switched to Alltel DSL, which although slower than Adelphia's HSI, is much more reliable and the speeds are also more consistent across the board. To me telcos have the advantage as far as broadband goes (in terms of reliability and consistency). They just need to start offering their own VoIP services as well as get going on rolling out IPTV.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12794859 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:31:49 EDT Re: But lets see their retention http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12794562 starstuff :
said by NewLife See Profile:

I would love to revisit this article in about 6 months to see their retention percent. Sure almost anyone with a new service can add tons of users during a period of time, but the real profits don't start until you have retention of those customers.
Right now probably VOIP is not mature enough to drop your POTS but eventually as VOIP matures to a more robust service people will drop their land lines. Telcos will be the biggest losers if they don't adapt fast enough to the changing market.

11K/week = 572K/year wow! half a million users just for TW... I wonder how Vonage, Packet8 and others are doing?

Not good news for the telcos :(
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