Comments on: Verizon Is More Wireless Than You Thought

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:36:20 +0000

Hey you; I’m a long-time Independant Distributor for the UW too.

- And by the way it’s simply commercially impossible to be both cheapest and best, and unfortunately the Utility Warehouse are neither: However, having said that, they ARE an extremely good viable alternative to other companies, and a large number of customers could make significant savings using their services; others may vary.

By: Chase Winters

Chase Winters — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:59:18 +0000

I’m very happy with Straight Talk and am impressed with their coverage on Verizon.

To me, the $30 – 1,000 minutes, 1,000 texts deal is unbeatable. I travel a lot and have never had a problem.

When I had Metro POS, it worked fine in town but as soon as I got outside the city, fuhgeddaboutit!

You get what you pay for, or in the case of Straight Talk, MORE than you pay for!

By: Dave in Central Mass

Dave in Central Mass — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:34:13 +0000

We live in central massachusetts. During the 100 year ice storm last December and power was out for 2 weeks we still had telephone through landline Verizon. Granted all our digital and powered answering machines were non-operational., my old rotary phone still allowed us to communicate with outside. In the event of major catastrophe i.e. hurricane, tornado, ICE storm, terrorist attack or whatever. you might still have connection. Also through landline/dialup iwas also still on the net with a laptop. So landlines are still needed.

By: DOS_equis

DOS_equis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:56:21 +0000

I remember back in 2004 when the hurricanes slammed through Florida, the cell tower Telco’s turned off the towers to all but emergency services due to the influx of call volume. I think it was off for about 2 days or more. I could barely make any calls and I had to switch the phone over manually to analog roam to do that. POTS has it’s place like during an emergency, but cell service will rule eventually. I just hope they have an emergency plan in place that doesn’t involve cutting off regular users service like before. That really sucked back then.

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:29:39 +0000

You make a very good point about the DSL. The way it's designed to work is that if you're within 15,000 feet (2.8 miles) of a DSLAM, you're supposed to be able to achieve 1.5 Mbits/s if your access plan has it available. This is nothing more than a pipe dream for many areas because of the seriously shoddy equipment used by the local Telco.

By: Rock M

Rock M — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:28:40 +0000

The Pots lines here in SW Mo. where I live are not as good as the Wireless or the Cable with Vonage.
When it rains in the town where I live the Pots lines become so bad that you cannot talk.
With the wireless it is fine, and also with Vonage.
With the old POTS my phone bill was over or close to 100 usd a month, I have never ever even come close to that with Vonage ,and I call all over the world to friends and family.
I think they need to pull up all the miles and miles of copper and put it to a better use.
As the cost of the land line phone has become just to costly . And it is not anymore reliable than the wireless or the cable / Vonage phone or phones of that type.

The land line phone company’s lagged behind on the new tech as they thought that they owned the phone service, even there DSL is out of date and is like having the Modem of old to use for the internet.
As it is now most of the land line customers are in the farm areas where they cannot got cable. But the wire less customers are getting wireless internet from there cell service in the farm areas as the phone company of old have not even got internet DSL out of just a few miles of the towns.
They waited to long and now they are so far behind that if they do not come up with something that is earth shaking they are going to be gone as we know them in the near future.
With the land line phone it cost 15 cents or more a minute to call anywhere but the local town, the world has passed them by and they tried to use the law to keep the new tech out. Well it did not work.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:45:11 +0000

I think POTS are on the way out. You can cry reliability all day long but people are on the move a lot more nowadays and cell phones are the only way to stay in touch. All my friends (and the younger relatives) have cell phones. With the exception of one or two, none use land lines anymore. Simply because very few see the point of paying for a service they hardly ever use.
I use a Straight Talk prepaid phone which costs me 45 bucks a month for unlimited calling and texting. I don’t need anything else. I refuse to pay for anything else.

By: David M

David M — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:18:22 +0000

My wife pays 13 cents per minute to speak to relatives in Romania using Vonage You cant get that rate with any cell phone. It’s not even close.

By: Mr Utility

Mr Utility — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:18:52 +0000

Anyone wanting to get switched over to our landline service or indeed have a new line installed we guarantee to beat BT. We have also had 2 entries in Which? this year and got BEST BUY for broadband (up to 24mps) and call bundle and BEST ENERGY provider. And it all comes on one bill AND you can get cashback from shopping at about 30 major outlets including Sainsbuy’s, Argos, New Look etc I got £53 off my utility bill this month and no other company can do all that. Gice us a try.
Mr Utility

By: DravenX

DravenX — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:25:36 +0000

We do not have a landline but if we wanted the security system activated in our apt than we would have to have a landline. When we first moved to SC the local cable company didn’t provide telephone service in our area. My wfie told me a few days ago they now provide service in our area. We don’t know if we will get it but we wouldn’t use it very often, if at all.