How is the "Free" Paging Service from IDT Wireless? 6
"This is from a press release on their web site:
The technology utilizes a proprietary "calling party pays" application which will eliminate the fees that subscribers are currently forced to pay for incoming pages and calls in the U.S. 'This technology is the culmination of more than four years of research and development on the part of IDT's Cellular Division engineers,' said Howard Jonas, IDT Chairman and CEO.
The rest of their web site is similarly vague. An AltaVista search and Google search revealed no further information on this company, so I tried calling the 1-800 number listed on their web site and was greeted by a message telling me to call back during normal business hours."
This service doesn't sound very good..... (Score:2)
Re:This service doesn't sound very good..... (Score:2)
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New Zealand has been this way for awhile (Score:2)
In New Zealand, normally it costs the caller, and only with some special services (eg 0800 numbers (equiv 1800)) does it cost the other party. With most pagers, the pager owner pays a monthly fee, and the caller pays some really cheap (like 10c) fee to send a page. However, in New Zealand, pagers and cellphone numbers start with 021-nnn-nnnn or 025-nnn-nnnn.
However, we do have the same sort of system that you are getting, a once off connection fee, and the caller pays (more) for paging.
One interesting feature we are getting is the ability to receive internet emails via digital cellphones. However there is a problem with this, the cellphone owner pays for each email sent to their phone, wether they want it or not. So if I know your cellphone email address, and I sent a 1000 emails to it (mailbomb), well...
However, back to the cellphones, Its really neat that caller pays, I have a cellphone with me all the time, and since I don't pay when someone calls me, its really handy for business. I usually make calls on a land-line whenever available so I have a low monthly fee.
If it wasn't for the fact that I need a landline for my ISP connection, I could feasibly get rid of my landline. $35/month for landline (flat rate, no per minute charges), vs anywhere between $0 (for prepay phones) or $20+ (for monthly fee phones) for cellphones per month, with call charges.
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Re:This service doesn't sound very good..... (Score:1)
IDT (Score:3)
As a former employee of IDT, I wouldn't get this. In general, they run scams. A few years back, all their top admins quit rather than have a certain person get made manager. Since then the Internet service has gone downhill, the news server degraded severely, and account started disappearing at random. They also run Net2Phone, the company that sucked the life from the helpdesk by making the helpdesk do Internet AND Net2Phone support, and keeping the same 'service measurements'.
Sounds like another scam, like their 'we'll have the system read email to you if you use Net2Phone and call in using it!' service that never got off the ground.
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Re:IDT (Score:2)
For a company that offers so many services, i don't know where the money is going to, i don't know how the CEO is featured as such a bright person and i don't know how or why anyone would use there products and services.
It wasn't until after i quit and they canceld my last paycheck and caused my life to be hell even more that i relized i was better off with IDT out of my life.
Now as the sr systems administrator, being stiffed like that i can only imagine how they would treat a customer. I wouldn't do it, i wouldn't recommend it. Sure IDT had some very nice people.
But there is no way in hell i will work for nore support the ultimate goal of someone elses dream to make millions from spreading yourself and your life soooo thin. Thats all. The answer is simple. If you want to be a long distance company then start a long distance company. Don't sell yourself as a long distance, pager, calling card, internet, e-commerce, network backbone, net2phone, 1800, 1900, systems integration, co-location, security, tech support and integration company without staffing the company and providing for the company and making sure that your employees are provided for so that you can actually ship atleast one quality service.
So my simple answer, idt is spread to thin, employees work for some unknown pie in the sky and while that 38.00 you spent might help them short term i hope they just shut doors so people can get on with what we call LIFE.
While this may be a bit off topic, it is sure one hell of a good reason to choose something better. After all making people pay to contact you sounds too much like an IDT product :) Its the IDT motto "Stiff your friends because it will make you money"
did i say that? :)