Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 11:29 am, Travis Roy wrote:
> > Apparently at some point you will be able to get a single box that
> > contains your TV, Internet, and phone.
>
> Not as long as the cable company can nickel and dime you for every
> set-top box you need and every other box device you need. No profit for
> them if they only have say one box in your basement.
>
> That and make you pay some crazy high fee if you actually want to buy
> the device.
>
> That's one of the things I like about DirecTV, I actually own my
> equipment. DirecTV is nice that they allow rebates and trade-ins for any
> new equipment later on. For example, TiVo service is going away in 2007,
> now you can get a DirecTV DVR for free after rebate (1 year agreement
> required).
AFAIK, you can own your own cable box with Comcast. I have not tried to buy 
one though.

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