 Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | $19.95 - No Marketing? Shocking. Considering it's half the price of their POTS line.
"there has also been a distinct lack of marketing for the service - at least when compared to Verizon's attempt to publicize Fios, for instance." | |
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Premium
join:2005-03-25
Allentown, PA | Re: $19.95 - No Marketing? Vonage is only $15 a month plus ~$1.50 taxes for 500 minutes. | |
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Dr Demento
I Vant Blud
join:2002-01-02
Denville, NJ | Re: $19.95 - No Marketing? quote:
unless you live in NJ.
Doh! And I thought that only applied to most decent car insurance plans and some NY based services.:( | |
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join:2002-12-30 | Re: $19.95 - No Marketing? agreed | |
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vzcomeskickingandscr
@optonline.net | That plan proves that verizon is realizing the competition will be a problem and is coming kicking and screaming about lowering voice telephone service prices.... | |
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onewurd
@optonline.net | INADEQUATE
inadequate
adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements
especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the
staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job" | |
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chigowolfs
Wolfie Is Here
join:2003-04-18
Chicago, IL
| screw the discount Lets get naked DSL and then Voicewing.... I do not see the point of a pots line charge, dsl charge, and a voicewing charge....
I am in an area where the cheapest pots line is 16.95 a month... that is with nothing on the line.... the dsl 29.99, and then if I want voicewing it would be an extra 19.95 a month... this is all before taxes....
so 67.00 before taxes for all 3.... nope make no sense to me!!!!!!!! | |
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Tomek
Premium
join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY | Re: screw the discount I completely agree. The lowest plan I can get with VZ is $18 landline (with taxes) + $35 (with tax) + voip. So far I don't see a discounts. It's good for FIOS.
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Nucleotide
join:2005-02-22
Newton Highlands, MA | Paired with FiOS?
What about the $20 Voicewing plan paired with Verizon FiOS? Will this combination be eligible for a $5 discount on the FiOS service?
So for $55 per month
5000/2000 FiOS and 500 Voicewing minutes | |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
Premium
join:2003-02-12
Murrieta, CA | Re: Paired with FiOS? That's what i'm talking 'bout - This is the telco's goal, get everyone off of copper and on to fiber = less cost and more profit | |
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jjoshua
Premium
join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Comcast
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For packages with unlimited calling, more than 5,000 minutes
a month is considered beyond normal residential use and may
be investigated, resulting in potential termination of service.
This is less than 3 hours per day. | |
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nekote
join:2000-12-16
Hopkinton, MA | Re: Read the fine print... Yeah, but at least it *IS* in the fine print!
Versus other providers of ISP services (Ahem, Comcast, ...) | |
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digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| Competitively priced??? Competitively priced??? How is that? I pay $20.50 or so and I get TWO VoIP lines with VoicePulse, 1 line has unlimited regional calling(90% of my state), and a total of 400 LD minutes.
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Jim Slim
Kenya's Finest
Premium
join:2002-01-12
Union, NJ
| LOL but i wonder.... Verizon forces me to keep phone line with DSL....so why pay for VoIP if i have their forced landline 
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askmrauto
Spam Fighter
Premium
join:2005-04-05
San Antonio, TX
| Re: LOL but i wonder.... Why because we have meter rate lifeline which come out to 2.53 plus 40.45 for DSL and then 15.00 for VoicePulse. So say the grand total is 58.00 to make it even. We now get all the major calling features at www.voicepulse.com, unlimited regional, and 200 long distance. Please raise you hand if you would get all that from a 60.00 Verizon POTS?
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rtcpenguin
Premium
join:2001-01-21
Fairfax, VA | Do they? I was under the impression its $30 a month and you don't need to have a Verizon phone line? | |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | and the "fees" are..... what are the fees on top of that $19.95? Vonage charges some sort of fee, $2-3, what's verizon gonna throw on there? | |
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AEKDB
join:2004-03-07
Towson, MD | 911 Service Do you get better E911 service with Verizon's VOIP than with the others? | |
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nekote
join:2000-12-16
Hopkinton, MA
| BroadVoice.com unlimited in-state $11.79/month FWIW, for "unlimited" in-state, try:
»www.BroadVoice.com/
$11.79/month total (incl. current fees, taxes, ...)
And, of course, that "line" can be in (more or less?) any state you want it to be.
Dunno' if they have a hidden maximum, like this Verizon VoIP 5,000 minutes per month limit that's apparently in the fine print.
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IsaacGolding
Get over it.
Premium
join:2003-08-29
Jersey Shore, PA
|  kinda lame when packet8 offers unlimited for 20$
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA
| Is this a POTS-;ess offering? Somehow I doubt that Verizon broadband customers are being let out of the POTS requirement for their broadband so I do not understand why someone would buy into a VoIP from them in the first place.
Buy POTS to get broadband. Buy broadband to get VoIP. VoIP isn't needed since you have POTS. | |
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bhorow
join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY
| No Real Savings for DSL Customers / Maybee Here is some intresting news as you may already know DSL will increase the pricing to 37.95, if you are under contract or have a Verizon Freedom package of any kind you are going to get a 8.00 discount instead of your 5.00 discount. So you are still at 29.95.
Now if you went to Voicewing, and had the freedom plan you would loose your discount, I just called and confirmed that.
Therefore for those who are recieving the discount because they are part of the freedom plan, beware of switching to Voicewing.
Now in addition for those one bill customers who are getting 4.00 off or more or 10% off there wireless bill, cause they have a freedom plan. They would also loose that benefit.
Now you may say, that you can offset that benefit by going into a contract with Verizon for DSL, and for those people who have the contract with DSL, you may get a benefit, from voicewing.
But Voicewing also has taxes and surcharges that roughly add 8.00. so that 19.00 is going to be more like $26.00.
Again cell phone users know this already, that it pays to do all your long distance calling on the cell phone.
Now here is a sweet deal at you may not know this. As of this year Verizon changed there pricing structure of there cell phone plans. So if you have more than a year on your contract you can change your plan. Ill give you an example to help you out.
I pay 39.99 for my plan right now America Choice 400 they did away with that plan and now its American Chocie 450. my plan had about a year left to go. So for adding 2 days more to my contract i was able to add 50 minutes more per month for the remainder of my contract.
This is true of all of verizon's plans including family plan. You are allowed to extend you existing plan and take advantage of extra minutes now. It makes sence for you to call verizon to see if you qualify.
As far as Voicwing is concerned, be very specific to find out what discounts you would be loosing should you go to Voicewing. because in the end the discounts you loose, may make up the difference you gain.
Verizon is the most heavily packaged utility, and i would strongly suggest that you always package your discounts.
Also if you work for a large corperation, very often they have deals with Verizon Wireless that go up to around 19% discount. and that is on top of discounts that you are already recieving.
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join:2004-11-15
Vienna, VA
| Re: No Real Savings for DSL Customers / Maybee said by bhorow  :But Voicewing also has taxes and surcharges that roughly add 8.00. so that 19.00 is going to be more like $26.00. bhorow,
Thanks for the very useful information. I need to look into my Verizon cell phone situation to see if it makes sense to move to the 450 minute plan. But I am curious as to the basis for your stating that the Voicewing $19.95 plan will include $8.00 in taxes. I know it varies from state to state, but can you say how you arrived at that number? Thanks.
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join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY
| Re: No Real Savings for DSL Customers / Maybee I spoke with Verizon and they gave me the estimate. In New York it would be about $8.00-$10.00. If you call you can get them to tell you. I'll tell you one thing its not 1.00.
Lets face it no matter what service you have they all will require e911 and other charges. Cable in my state charges about the same taxes. No one is exempt from taxes and surcharges. If it doesn't happen now it will happen soon enough for everyone.
My whole message came out of a long conversation with Verizon where i talked with covered about everything verizon sells. | |
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join:2004-11-15
Vienna, VA
| Re: No Real Savings for DSL Customers / Maybee Thanks. I was thinking of calling Verizon to ask about taxes but know from experience (with ATT CallVantage) that they do not readily provide that information. I'm thinking of switching from CallVantage's $29.99 plan to Voicewing's $19.99 plan. I'm pretty sure we don't use more than 500 minutes outbound in the typical month so it seems like a better deal for us. I was hoping the taxes would be less (I pay almost $8 in taxes for CallVAntage here in Virginia), but I guess no such luck. Thanks again for the info. | |
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