Looks like they are starting to get it, a little too late though lol
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102595233
Of course those who stand to suffer most financial loss are not amused with this deal…
Wow, no doubt they are 
I pay $78 a month for 50/6 mb internet and phone service with comcast (Xfinity). I can watch any show or movie I want to the day after it is broadcast from online sources. Almost always the same quality and always without commercials. I have Tablo 4 tuner for OTA TV. I am not into sports at all. For me, I cannot see any reason to pay for what is free and far more than I could ever watch.
My last cable/satellite bill for content was about 10 years ago. The only thing I miss about it, is I can’t call them up every month and argue about the bill they always seemed to have wrong – And always in their favor. But, I have less heartburn now, so I guess I can do without paid content, HA!
Why pay anything for home phone these days.
I went from Verizon (copper) $50/mth > Vonage (voip) $15/mth > Ooma (voip) $5/mth to Google Voice (voip) $0/mth for two years now.
I can even have google voice ring at my house, on my cell, both, and screen only selected numbers to ring through. All for $0/mth. Can’t beat it.
What are you using for your VOIP hardware that lets your GV line ring physical phones at your residence?
I had VOIP in a few versions over the years. I really don’t care for them. My internet/phone bundle is cheap enough to live with and they both work all the time. Internet is blazing at 50mb d/l.
-Rodger
Why pay anything for home phone these days.
I went from Verizon (copper) $50/mth > Vonage (voip) $15/mth > Ooma (voip) $5/mth to Google Voice (voip) $0/mth for two years now.
I can even have google voice ring at my house, on my cell, both, and screen only selected numbers to ring through. All for $0/mth. Can't beat it.
I agree that one shouldn’t pay those crazy home phone rates anymore. I use Ooma also and the base price (includes unlimited long distance/caller ID) costs me just under $4 a month, taxes included. I’ve been really happy with the call quality. It’s VOIP just like the cable company provides.
Back to the Verizon offering… if they don’t offer some sort of DVR functionality, forget it. If I want to watch TV like I did in the 60’s, I wouldn’t have anything but an antenna.
@ericgus this is what I use. I’ve had free home phone through Google voice for at least 3 years now. http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1429533901&sr=8-2&keywords=obi
@jbanks25 Thanks!
The best Verizon Fios package continues to be the basic one I’m on.
$10/mth for all local channels including sub-digital and PBS
+ Velocity, HGTV, History, and several dozen other basic cable channels.
The best Verizon Fios package continues to be the basic one I'm on.$10/mth for all local channels including sub-digital and PBS+ Velocity, HGTV, History, and several dozen other basic cable channels.
I could only wish…
being in a somewhat rural area in a non competitive part of the country it will probably be decades before anyone even considered sending fiber our way. And meanwhile the folks who live in my general area (and surrounding towns) will probably have to deal with comcast or nothing as our choices. $10 wouldnt even buy an add-on for the cheapest package here (which is like $60 mo for just standard cable modem internet … no television)
The Verizon plan definitely has a lot of fees to watch out for: http://www.techhive.com/article/2912439/verizons-custom-tv-skinny-bundles-more-flexibility-same-old-gotchas.html
@ericgus this is what I use. I've had free home phone through Google voice for at least 3 years now. http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1429533901&sr=8-2&keywords=obi
I have an OBi 110, but it’s disconnected now. A POTS landline without CID is only $20/month around here so I’ve had one for 25 years because it’s reliable, and with GV on the VoIP port, the OBi 110 defaults to the POTS port if you dial 911. Around a year ago, OBi announced GV was going to stop supporting Jabber so I went with their PhonePower deal at $5/month. Within a year the RX level got so bad I dropped PhonePower and yanked the OBi. We still use GV, I set up a browser tab for it on the wife’s laptop and she acclimated to using that for outbound LD calls. If someone calls the GV number off their CID, it forks to the landline.