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Avoid Broadvoice.com VoIP Phone Company at all costs!

Posted on the December 19th, 2008 under Interesting by John Burmeister

Just a frustrated consumer… Avoid http://broadvoice.com at all costs. I was a customer of theirs for over 4 years, pretty much from when they launched. I think their service as a VoIP company (Not their customer service) was average. I had a few issues along the way with their sip servers going down but it was really minimal. The voice quality was OK, their web interface is is complete, their phone support is moderate at best. Soo…. 4 years later, time to move on to my triple play with Cablevision. I have a $99.00 a month deal for Cable, Internet, and Phone service. I think great! Save cash, move the phone number over, done deal.

Ahhh, but wait. “Broadvoice” is not a phone company (this is the crap they fed to me) . They will NOT release their number to you if you try to port it OUT. Yet, they’d gladly port your number in. While I did NOT agree or sign to these “TERMS” when I first became a customer, yet they magically apply to me.

So now I am stuck moving my home phone to a new number, dumping Broadvoice because they will not transfer my number which will end up in a class action lawsuit sooner or later. Maybe its me, but I just think that’s shady business practice. They are trying to retain customers by holding your number hostage. This is one time where I think the government needs to step in….

If you provide phone service, 911 service, etc, your a damn phone company in my book.

I hope if you have learned anything from this, its stay away from Broadvoice. I cain’t even imagine if you have your business lines ported over. Imagine not being able to keep your business number because they would not release it to you? Seriously think twice before signing up for Broadvoice or any phone company before getting a SIGNED contract that states that you can port your number out when you leave. Thank god that my business number is not with Broadvoice (I just use their service for outgoing sip on that line, as well as my customers accounts). I’ll be moving them away from them as well as 4 of my family members as result of this.

Have a good Holiday all!

2008 Live Election Results Map

Posted on the November 4th, 2008 under Interesting by John Burmeister

2008 Live Election Results Map – Mouse over and or click the state…

Obama won, hope he does the right thing.

Here are some before, during and after shots of the landscaping

Posted on the May 27th, 2008 under Interesting, Levittown, Personal, Remodeling, house, long island by John Burmeister

Here are some before, during and after shots of the landscaping. We did a simple design for the front, and are planning on adding another layer or two of the brick to finish it off. We just did one layer so we could put the initial mulch down and that is all that would fit in my truck.

Everything seems to be growing pretty good, the grass has some bare spots and I’ll address those in the spring. Hopefully some of those weeds will go away with the next weed and feed session. Next up is to do a fence along the side and back (behind the new arborvitaes we planted). Waiting for that tax refund!

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