Ameripage? By any chance could that have been
Alan Sent from my iPhone 5s > On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:12 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:I > > Back in the mid 90's, I purchased a pager service with included voice was > mail for my business. The pager service was $6 per month plus $4 per month > for the voice mail. However, the company was running a new subscriber special > for involved with them.$150 for lifetime service. This was at the time just > before cell phones started becoming popular. Well, lifetime service, > including voice mail, for $150, wow, what a bargain. I would pay it off in 15 > months and never need to worry about paying for that service again. > > After 15 months of service, I broke even. After 18 months of service, the > company folded. Cellphone service was becoming much more popular, so people > were not using voicemail pagers as much anymore. However, the company still > had to pay for the continuing costs of the voicemail service, and they could > not meet their costs. So, I received 3 free months of service before I needed > to find another system. I also needed to change all my promotional materials > to a new phone number since I lost the pager number when the company went out > of business. > > Lifetime means lifetime of the service or lifetime of the company, and the > company must have revenue streams to cover their costs. > > So, when people complain about how unfair it is for a company to pass on > their ongoing costs, remember that the alternative may well be end of > service.. > > Then, consider the following. VizWiz is a project of a certain university in > the US. I believe it is Georgia Tech, but it has been a couple years since I > read information about it, so I may well be completely wrong about which > university. VizWiz uses volunteers to identify pictures. However, they still > have computer network and routing charges which they must pay. The US > government is reducing funding to universities. I wonder how much longer > VizWiz will continue running. > > We already know that Talking Goggles ceased functioning once already, for > several months, because of some conflict with Google. > > Just a few things to think about when one starts feeling frustrated about > prices of ongoing services. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
