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Fox McCloud
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Re: well...
said by TKJunkMail  :said by Fox McCloud :That said, the day when most everyone uses the Internet to make calls, and the price is zero (or very close to it), it'll definitely be very very nice...hopefully, by then, wideband will have taken over. The price point will never be ZERO as long as people need cust svc support to help them out with problems. People cost money and businesses will charge for that. And before someone brings up the ad supported business plan, will you use a voice service that interrupts your call for a commercial? Say every 10 mins, you have to interrupt your conversation for a 30 sec ad(like a Hulu video). let me rephrase that---for some VoIP, the price will probably be zero, but the only people that will use it are the tech savvy--the "near zero" will be the VoIP which has customer support.
now, if phones had a small video display, ad-supported VoIP might work :P
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CylonRed
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Bloom County | It is a pipe dream that you can offer a service for nothing. VOIP will never be free nor can it be free. | |
fiberguy
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| I don't know why, but it really angers me when I see people pushing the notion of a free service-anything.. especially something as important as telephone.
To me, I see it as someone trying to tear down a vital industry and associate it as a joke.
No matter how much wireless and mobility this nation has for communication, having a secure, stable, wired solution is a must. Wireless has way too many things that stand in the way to being labeled a lifeline service and always will.
But, as for the zero or near zero.. its a Utopian, as you said, pipe-dream that will never happen. I'm still waiting for the great day that MagicJack becomes a BBR front page news article that the owner was indited for running a ponzi-scheme or simply goes belly up. | |
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