I am inclined to believe Bjorn on this matter, there is a lot of built up resentment against Bell Canada. Generally people know when they are being ripped-off and the average subscriber has a long memory. Anyway, after listening to Bell Canada's VP of VoIP (or whatever)it seems like they plan on offering two products. 1. They ship you an ATA with instructions and you connect it to your DSL modem, but people migrating to this service only actually save a couple of bucks over an analog line. The reason for the high cost is that they estimate that 90% of the people will have to call customer support to get the thing up and running. There are other factors involved but life is too short to write about it. 2. Now this is really cool!, to save the expensive customer support required in the first product they put the ATA at the other end and use the original tip and ring circuit to deliver calls. I'm serious, folks. And it gets better, because this is classified as a business line it's gonna cost more than your normal analog business line.
Need I say more? "We have nothing to fear except fear itself" Henry L.Coleman CEO *VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355 Toronto Ontario Canada > I guess I have to correct myself. > We (AtlasVoice) are not going out of business, but we will face more > problems dealing with the incumbents from now on. > Luckily most of our customers have an ABB (Anything-But-Bell) policy, > and as long as we provide better service we're good. That part of the > competition is not the tricky part... > > As John pointed out, new customers will now have to spend more time on > the phone fighting off Bell-reps begging them to stay with Bell. > However, I'm confident most customers will see through their charade. > > Thanks, > Bjorn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bjorn Asmul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Elevator news > > Hi Zoltan, > > This could be the end of smaller VoIP providers, and telecom competition > in general. > > The only reason companies, such as AtlasVoice, can stay in business is > because the "giants" are regulated. > http://www.cavp.ca/content/view/76/2/ > > Once they've sabotaged all their competition, Bell and Telus will once > again be able to jack up the prices and regain their monopoly. > I hope the first area will be Parliament Hill and Maxime Bernier's > neighbourhood. But then again...that'll go on our tab. > > Thanks, > Bjorn Asmul > www.atlasvoice.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pittner, Zoltan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [on-asterisk] Elevator news > > I am not sure how is that news system called with the display in the > elevators, however this mornig I read the following which might be of > interest to us all: > > "Ottawa orverruled CRTC decision to regulate the services provided by > the emerging VOIP providers" > > This may be good for us all. > > Zoltan. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
