Time Warner Getting Into The Phone Biz

[KRL]

Time Warner is planning to offer its vast customer base Voice-Over-IP phone calling via its cable and Internet networks in conjunction with MCI and Sprint.

Instead of plugging your phones into regular phone line jacks, you'll just hook them into your cable connection.

They're planning to offer unlimited local and long distance phone calling throughout the US for about $39.95 per month.

[Mike AI]

Voice over IP is going to be HUGE..... the long distance industry is worth like 13-15 billion a year.

[Fletch XXX]

I predicted this when Roadrunner came out.

Using household toon name to brand a line, brilliant.

Warner Bros studio is just up the road, in Burbank, drove by it yesterday... I remember trying to get roadrunner like 3 years ago, fuckers told me i didnt live close enough!

hahah



Last edited by Fletch XXX at Dec 9 2003, 09:25 AM

[quiet]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Dec 9 2003, 09:19 AM
Voice over IP is going to be HUGE..... the long distance industry is worth like 13-15 billion a year.

indeed

[Pornwolf]

Yeah it is going to be huge but I think that number is going to be cannibalized. Between VoIP and cellphones you can expect that number to be halfed. The major phone companies have been quaking in their boots for the past 5 years over this. Now that the FCC has seemed to clear the way for the companies fee wise it's going to be bloody.

[KRL]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Dec 9 2003, 12:19 PM
Voice over IP is going to be HUGE..... the long distance industry is worth like 13-15 billion a year.

I could kick myself in the ass for not getting into cell phones early on when an opportunity came my way.

That market is now over 1.5 Billion cell phone users worldwide spending I'm sure at least $50 per month per user, if not more. So that market is over $75 Billion PER MONTH! About $900 Billion PER YEAR!

No wonder they can afford to run huge 1 page newspaper ads all over the place. LOL

[KRL]

Its funny when I grew up the only choice you had for local and long distance was one single company. AT&T controlled everything top to bottom for telecom.

And remember those long distance rates. LOL. AT&T had that scam monopoly running for decades. Wonder how much we all got reamed for over all that time, when it could have been so much cheaper had the govt. stepped in and allowed competition.

FUCKERS!!



Last edited by KRL at Dec 9 2003, 01:01 PM

[Peaches]

Originally posted by KRL@Dec 9 2003, 02:00 PM
Its funny when I grew up the only choice you had for local and long distance was one single company. AT&T controlled everything top to bottom for telecom.

And remember those long distance rates. LOL. AT&T had that scam monopoly running for decades. Wonder how much we all got reamed for over all that time, when it could have been so much cheaper had the govt. stepped in and allowed competition.

FUCKERS!!

Not only that but you had to rent your phone from ATT (Western Electric) also. There are cases all the time with the elderly where they are STILL paying $3-5 a month for their phone rental to ATT.

[Carrie]

I get phone service through my cable (Cox); but it's plugged into normal phone lines here in the house. It's out at the switch where plugging it into the cable line takes place.

[kath]

Unfortunately Time Warner has the Midas "Shit" Touch.... everything they touch turns to utter crap. I'd go with anyone else but TW - no matter WHO else. They top my list of WORST public utility services EVER. <_<

The whole broadband phone thing looks interesting though. I know I'm sick of paying Verizon (our local company) out the nose for everything.

[Fletch XXX]

Question:

I have cable internet and digital cable television. Only real problem I have is when the thing goes down, no tv and no internet.

Does it do this also to phone if you use cable phone lines?

I hate when one goes out so does the other.

it would totally blow to be without internet, tv, and phone while Adelphia jerks itself off while repairs are being done.

does this ever interrupt service like with cable tv and internet?

ive had adelphia go down for like 3 hours in a day, and its rather annoying when it does since it disables everything, tv as well as outside communication.

[sextoyking]

Voip is going to get even bigger down the road.

We are looking at starting our own voip phone company right now, will see how it turns out.

I have been using packet8.net for months and the call quality, voice mail, features for $20.00 per month can't be beat.

Unlimited calls to anywhere in the usa / canada. We ship the ata (voice) adapters to employees overseas, and I just dial a local portland # to call them Same if they want to call me.

All that anyone needs to use these anywhere in the world is a broadband connection, i.e. dsl,cable, wireless network, t-1's, etc.

voice mail can be checked from anywhere, and you can also have your voice mail sent to your email box, i think in wav or some file.

[sextoyking]

Fletch,

if you get rid of your Pots (regular phone line) and just use VOIP, i.e. packet8.net or vonage.com, if your power or net connection goes down, no phone

but if you have a cell or keep 1 pots line as backup, your cool.

[KRL]

Originally posted by Peaches+Dec 9 2003, 01:21 PM-->