CallVantage may have survived being
sued by Vonage, but there's one thing it couldn't survive -- progress. After thrilling us for some time now by magically transmitting people's "voice" over something called the "internet," AT&T's
VoIP service will begin weening off customers over the course of this year. Folks will be able to switch to either another AT&T service, transfer to another service provider, or drop off the communications grid altogether -- where they will finally have the opportunity to spend their lives in solemn contemplation, with nothing but the babbling brook, the sweet sound of songbirds, and a journal of their thoughts to keep them occupied. The company says that it's pulling the plug to concentrate on its
U-verse voice service, which can only mean one thing:
Watson's got to them. We knew that guy was up to no good.
[Via
MobileTechNews]
posted Apr 23rd 2009 1:31PM
WTF is on your right cheek, my dear Watson?
WATSON: Did Ron just call me out on my hideous face parasite?
HOLMES: Indubitably.
wheres the other stooge?
When I got U-Verse last Nov. they didn't have VOIP available so I went with T-Mobile @Home service for $10 mo. If you need a land-line (local utilities won't accept a cell number for contact) and already have a T-mobile account it is definitely the way to go.
Are there any SIP-based VoIP providers making money? Vonage, the biggest VoIP provider in US, has $45 million in cash with over $200 million in debt, lost $40 million last quarter.
Yes,
To my knowledge, Packet8 (8x8), is the only pureplay voip provider that's actually making a profit. They primarily sell residential and small-med size businesses, and have now turned their sites to bigger fish (enterprise).
Their res offerering is similar to callvantage / vonage, and the likes... Their business product runs on hosted PBX also known as IP Centrex.
Cheers,
Adam
Another inspired Engadget graphic. Thanks for the laugh guys... :)
We use Nextiva and it was better than our ATT service. We weren't on call vantage. Nextiva is a good one.
What a hugely interesting tech story.....lol
Why doesn't AT&T doesn't just repackage this as a $20/month option for iPhone users?
Google Voice is great and all, but the fact that it's not using your main cell number is a show stopper. Sure you can tell everyone your new number, but when you call and text them, it comes from your cell # and never your google voice number.
So take my iPhone service and map it to Callvantage, give me a web view of my iPhone Visual Voicemail, add SMS in and out all from my real iPhone number (including saving my SMS activity history) and you have a winner.
Apple and AT&T have "hinted" at deeper integration with AT&T and uVerse witht he upcoming iPhone 3.0, hopefully we'll see this.
Oh holy hell. First Sunrocket and not ATT. I think someone is trying to tell me not to use voip for my home phone service.
I've had it for over 2 years. Best sounding, most reliable VOIP service. It just plain works.
Too bad they are killing it.
It was the best BYOB VoIP Service, although not the cheapest.. I had it since the service inception and I will miss it.
Anyone have a good solid recommendation for another BYOB VoIP service that offers rock solid voice quality and possibily a softphone service like the CallVantage?
I'm considering switching to VoIP your life for the home phone service, but I'm stumped for the softphone choice (which was an add-on for $15/month)...
Check our callcentric. I have used them for a while now and they are great. Much better than every other clown i have used: packet8, vonage, sunrocket and verizon voip. Especially for BYOD. They have great reviews on dslreports.com too.
If anyone wants a great VOIP provider they need to try callcentric. They're BYOD so you have not know what you are doing but it's well worth it.
CallVantage blew more than the Santa Anna winds and a $3 crack wh0r3 put together. The amount of times my calls got dropped was a bit obscene.
AT&T will still offer VOIP, but on the U-VERSE side.
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