djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
 ·RoadRunner Cable
3 edits | reply to dadkins
Re: Lets see...
You also don't need to play QoS games for your phone to work reliably. The bandwidth for it is provisioned separately from your HSI.
Your CDV also probably works with data services like faxes and TiVos. CallVantage could do it but requires "special" configuration, and there were warnings about upload bandwidth throttling and poor voice quality on their instructions. Some other VOIP providers can't do it at all.
CDV, and probably even U-verse Voice are more robust services and are priced as such.
For U-verse and AT&T DSL users, at least there was a little comfort in knowing that we stayed completely on AT&T's network to arrive at CallVantage's servers.
I simply don't trust some of the smaller VOIP outfits with my phone number. I don't want another SunRocket. CV may be being retired, but AT&T is a big company, I'm sure if they shut it down completely, we will be migrated off reasonably smoothly. I'm guessing AT&T doesn't want to let a bunch of voice customers just walk away, though. They will probably hang onto us until they can migrate us somewhere else. |
