Comments on: More ‘Free’ Phone Call Providers Offline

By: ansa

ansa — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:03:20 +0000

What the hell is wrong with you. By you, I mean anyone that thinks people should be forced to pay 300 to 1000 doLLARS a month just to talk to friends and family around the world. Oh and airfare that’s another issue. Yeah right! I think nikolev works or invested into let’s say ATNT.

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:13:56 +0000

You keep on talking about AT&T. Ma Bell is not the only one suffering. As there’s no such thing as “free lunch”, somebody needs to pay the bill and in most cases this is the consumer.

By: King Tut

King Tut — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:01:17 +0000

Nikolay, I find it difficult to sympathise with your concern over AT&T welfare as “abusing the system” within legal limits is the only way the Telco lobby, the monolopists and a weak FCC have left open to innovative industry mavericks to operate in the voice market. More abuse please. More products that people want, at the price they want to pay for them. Less AT&T ;-)

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:48:35 +0000

No, it’s not just AT&T, but they have the money to sue. Schemes like AllFreeCalls.net prevent VoIP from offering real unlimited calling plans, because a constantly increasing number of people will be abusing the system, make tons of very expensive calls and the providers will have to react.

By: Robin Hood

Robin Hood — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:55:51 +0000

Nikolay, are you serious? Oh, poor AT&T. They work hand in hand with the regulators to set up monopolist schemes and then run to the courts to stop anybody who doesn’t play by their rules. Not that they win in court, mind you, but they make the start-up, innovative, entrepreneurial guy drop the service because he can’t pay to fight AT&T, even though he’s ultimately right. If this loophole needs to be shut, that’s one thing (and, by the way, the entire USF and rural subsidies issue needs to be fixed…I have a hard time feeling for the citizens of Telluride, CO getting free phone service from the government). But give me a break. AT&T is the new AT&T, just like the old AT&T. Non-innovator. Gouger. Monopolist. Lawyer filled, government back office puppetteer, etc. Don’t shed too many tears for them.

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:08:47 +0000

Schemes like AllFreeCalls.net WILL NOT and SHOULD NOT survive. They are plain wrong. If the lawsuit does not end the schemes, I hope mobile operators and VoIP providers to start blocking the access numbers of such services. I can't believe that US consumers are selling their morals so cheaply. At the end, there are so many low cost unlimited plans to those destinations. At the end, think about it - OK, you save one penny per minute, but that minute costs AT&T 7 cents per minute. Then, half of those 7 cents go straight into the pocket of foreign nationals that really don't care that AT&T will try to compensate from the loss one way or another, i.e. the US consumer will pay for it anyway. It's plain wrong and it's time to end it!