Verizon Wireless Announces the Hub Home Phone
Someone at T-Mobile should have informed Verizon...
Any honest sales reps that work for T-Mobile would tell you that the reason why their aren't many major companies going after this market is.....because their is little to NO MARKET. Each store in the region I work sells maybe 3-4 a month and usually 2-3 of them get returned.
Here's the problem with T-mobile@Home. Most people who have cable or DSL typically don't use or have a home phone. A fraction of the people that do have both high speed Internet and a home phone use it for business, which will usually share the land line with a fax machine. Problem is, getting a fax machine to work with the service either requires you to use an online fax system or spend extra money on equipm...
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It looks to me like this product is targeted to the middle class family. Hence the ability to coordinate schedules. You are correct this product would not sell to tmob customers. This will not be a huge seller with Verizon but I think it should be profitable for them. It will also help them to win back some of there land line service from companies like skype and vantage.
This product is not intended to be a stand alone produc...
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The T-Mobile demographic consists of people who don't want to spend a whole lot on their monthly bills and are willing to sacrifice a little when it comes to reception and phone options, as well as pretty much miss out on most of the advantages to having 3G.
The Verizon demographic consists of people that need to have coverage in remote areas and are willing to pay extra per month for it. Also business users who need fast data devices and laptop internet cards.
So where do you see a market for this with Verizon?
Only a very small amount of normal Verizon users...
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tlgreene1021 said:
ummm...yea I have. Which is great because it's PORTABLE. I don't see the point of having PDA functionality in a home phone when you either have a blackberry in your pocket or...ummm well, your AT HOME 😲 Use your computer. You must have a computer at home, otherwise why the hell would you have high speed internet at your house?
That's Easy...
My XBox 360
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Lets say for example somebody has 2k min with t-mobile and 3line family plan. They will pay $110 a month (before taxes and whatever add-ons) but they are using about 2k-2.5k a month and keep going over. Instead of upping their plan by $30 a month you can just have them get a house phone for $10 a month. VERY EASY TO SELL!
For the people...
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And Verizon is crazy for charging $35/month for it. All of the extras are completely unnecessary. It's $10 more expensive than Vonage, the biggest VoIP provider. It's really not even that much cheaper than just regular land line service through quest. Verizon really missed the boat on this one.
Cabbit-sama said:
might as well get magicjack. that's 20 bucks a YEAR. i use it, works like a charm.
LOL, very good point. Actually I don't think this is a bad idea, I do think its absurdly over priced, even Verizon (not wireless) charges less for VOIP over their FIOS connection.
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