{"id":7031,"date":"2008-07-03T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/callvantage_service_to_end.html"},"modified":"2008-07-03T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T17:16:43","slug":"callvantage-service-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/callvantage-service-to-end.html","title":{"rendered":"CallVantage Service to End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see AT&amp;T CallVantage service come to an end. Tom Keating has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/att-dropping-callvantage.asp\">more<\/a> on what is speculation at the moment. UVerse is obviously a competitive product to CallVantage but you need AT&amp;T DSL to get it. Here is the reason that CallVantage service probably needs to be phased out.<\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T is no a network neutrality advocate and in order for CallVantage to have acceptable QoS levels, they would need other carriers to adhere to Net Neutrality. CallVantage service doesn&#8217;t bring in a great deal of money and price wars with Vonage and others make it virtually impossible for the major telecom company to make money from what some call a &#8220;parasitic&#8221; service. Personally I never liked this term by the way.<\/p>\n<p>The reason CallVantage makes sense to keep is that it allows AT&amp;T to become more firmly entrenched in other countries without the need to draw wires or fiber to households.<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in seeing how this plays out and whether AT&amp;T would consider spinning this unit off to another company. If so, who would buy it? 8&#215;8? Vonage? Or will AT&amp;T just shut it down and not deal with the hassle of selling their valuable customer list?<\/p>\n<p>I will keep you posted on what is speculation at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see AT&amp;T CallVantage service come to an end. Tom Keating has more on what is speculation at the moment. UVerse is obviously a competitive product to CallVantage but you need AT&amp;T DSL to get it. Here is the reason that CallVantage service probably needs to be phased out. AT&amp;T is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,171,172,1,160,212,199,218,1673,189,118,190,191,205],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}