Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Will Kemp" <Will@xxxx.Swaggie.net> wrote in message
> news:47073488$0$3579$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:54:59 +0000, Michael wrote:
>>
>>> "thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4706fa85$0$26404$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. .
>>>> On Telstra's propganda website, they are now spruiking that VOIP is
>>>> crap and consumers whould avoid it like the plague. Sorry Telstra,
>>>> you have missed the boat and have become more irrelevant than
>>>> ever. No wonder why Coonan chose OPEL and that Telstra will NEVER
>>>> get a look-in again at any Federal money for broadband expansions.
>>>
>>> generally, it is crap. its an immature product.
>>
>> It's nowhere near as immature as that oaf Trujillo!
>>
>> But, in fact, it's not at all immature. VOIP (as opposed to internet
>> telephony) is widely used in many large corporations and works
>> faultlessly.
>
> With vast numbers of people supporting it. Joe Blow hasnt got a chance
>
>>> go look at whirlfool forums, posts like - i cant get through to a
>>> local number unless i dial 03 9xxx instead of just 9xxx . . .
>>> - i cant dial certain 13 numbers
>>> - incoming calls get ring tone but dont ring at my end
>>
>> Pretty much the same sort of thing as what you'll find in the
>> broadband forums - would you describe *that* as an immature
>> technology? All sorts of people have difficulties with all forms of
>> technology. That's just the way it is.
>
> Yet no one seems to have trouble with the POTS network

Tell that to the Baldings, their kid ended up dead, you stupid dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

>>> Then, you have a hard wired phone
>>>
>>> it rings, you pick it up, you talk
>>>
>>> when you want to dial out, you lift it, and make a call
>>
>> There's plenty of times when ADSL works on someone's line, but the
>> phone doesn't - in those cases, internet telephony (which clowns
>> like you will insist on referring to as "VOIP") is more reliable
>> than POTS.

> Hardly ever occurs.

Not a fucking clue, as always.