Comment Re:This seems justified in a way... (Score 0) 160
Are you fregging kidding me? I pay Comcast 62 bucks a month to provide me IP service to my home. I pay them to get my packets from point A to B. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Packets don't magically wing their way across the globe, you know." No they sure don't, but i bet that ~$50/month people pay for broadband sure does help. So you're saying that because someone designed something that costs less (VOIP vs. pots) and company ABC is losing money because they can't compete so they're going to charge MORE for the services that they just so happen to have a complete monopoly on. Hrm. Sounds like a tough one to me.
Here's a solution. Don't charge me $46/month for a BASIC pots line with caller-id. If it was $25 i most likely never would have switched to Vonage. I have NO sorrow for Verizon/etc for their price gouging on everything under the sun.
"Packets don't magically wing their way across the globe, you know." No they sure don't, but i bet that ~$50/month people pay for broadband sure does help. So you're saying that because someone designed something that costs less (VOIP vs. pots) and company ABC is losing money because they can't compete so they're going to charge MORE for the services that they just so happen to have a complete monopoly on. Hrm. Sounds like a tough one to me.
Here's a solution. Don't charge me $46/month for a BASIC pots line with caller-id. If it was $25 i most likely never would have switched to Vonage. I have NO sorrow for Verizon/etc for their price gouging on everything under the sun.
