Dryvlyne
Far Beyond Driven
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join:2004-08-30
Newark, OH
| reply to starstuff
Re: But lets see their retention
said by starstuff  :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. |
