Posts Tagged ‘home phone service’

Revamped Local Phone Service Page

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

After taking a look at what we had on the home phone service page of calling-plans.com last week, it was decided that the page needed to lose it’s landline phone service products, and get with the times. Especially since there really aren’t any discount landline companies offering local phone service anymore, that aren’t Baby Bell’s or VoIP providers, and sometimes they are one and the same. It was therefore decided that just leaving the Whitefence form up was enough to give people looking for landline service a choice, since it’s just like looking in your local yellow pages, and to list nothing but internet phone service plans on the rest of the home phone service page.

We will give this a week or two to see how people take it, and if it doesn’t work, we will switch it back to a mixed bag of landline and VoIP. Since most people aren’t really getting landline service anymore, except for those people who think that digital phone service from a cable company is landline service, we’ll see if there is a noticeable drop in traffic or phone sales.

Comcast Local & Long Distance Phone Service

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Comcast is offering digital phone service now in most area of the country where they have a cable presence. If you are interested in picking up local and long distance phone service from them, they offer unlimited calling for around $39.95 per month, depending on where you are.

Here are some of the things they offer.

  • Unlimited local and long-distance nationwide calling to the US, Canada and Puerto Rico.
  • Rated #1 in call clarity thanks to our enhanced fiber-optic network.*
  • Visual voice mail that lets you see who called so you can listen to the most important messages first.
  • 12 popular calling features including Caller ID, Call Waiting, and more.
  • Low international calling rates.

visit Calling-Plan.com’s home phone service provider’s page to run a rate check.

Verizon Sells Landline Customers to Frontier

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

On July 1, 2010, Verizon customers in 14 states, became customers of Frontier Communications. Frontier bought the customers and their landline phone service accounts from Verizon for around 5.3 billion dollars. I have absolutly no idea why someone would want to buy landline customers, when everyone and their dog is switching to either voice over IP phone service, cell phone service, or a combination of the two.

Qwest was complaining a couple of months ago, that they were losing like 3 percent of their landline customers every month in New Mexico, and the trend was the same in their other 13 states. with that kind of customer loss, I don’t understand why a company would chose to buy landline customers. (OK, there is one reason, and that is because the US government, through the FCC’s PIC Fee program, is still paying rural phone companies to provide phone service . And the money isn’t a paltry sum. Last year there was one place in Washington state where the Feds paid a company like $600,000 to provide service to less than 30 houses.)

If any of you have any thoughts on this, drop a comment with links and lets see if we can figure this out.