[Cialug] Freese Notis has VOIP

[Mr. Arthur]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jon Clemons wrote:

> I would say their pricing point seems a bit high considering this.

Well pricing in most cases depends 
on how to create a sustainable business.

In capitalism, you are welcome to compete 
at a lower price and see if you stay in 
business or go out of business at that 
lower price point.

No vender is doing a favor for their 
customers by pricing low and then in 
the meantime running into a crunch.

Welcome to capitalism at its best.

Freese-Notis has been in business longer 
than most of these players for Internet 
or VOIP by a great deal.  The original 
business was founded in 1973, it is an 
Iowa Corporation (not a fly by night LLC 
in some far away state) and has done 
Internet services since 1994.  Provides 
DSL, T-1's, T-3's etc.  Voice over the 
Internet protocol was launched in 2004 
to paying customers.  The brand of our 
VOIP reflects that we are an established 
Iowa company.

That was before domain names even cost 
money or Network Solutions had much to 
say about it.  Maybe someone out there 
really generous will buy a TLD and do 
free registrations without lots of the 
pre-qualifications for money again.

> Long distance interstate calls will be billed at 4.9 cents per minute. 
> Intrastate calls can vary depending upon where you call, in some cases 10 
> cents per minute or more depending on local tariff charges.

When the LATA's officially fall, the
sustainable business price will likely go 
down as well for VOIP from Freese-Notis.

It is really that simple.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan C. Smith" <smith@ipmvs.com>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:18 PM
> Subject: [Cialug] Freese Notis has VOIP
>
>
>> 
>> I just got off the phone with Tony at Freese and they are getting into VOIP
>> in a big way.
>> 
>> 'http://www.iowatalk.com/'
>> 
>> They are also terminating 515 numbers at this time.
>> It would seem that they have already nailed the price point too.
>> 
>> -Nate
>> 
>> Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667
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