Don't Get Suckered Into Purchasing "Digital Phone Service"

This post is dedicated to those of you who are considering "bundled" digital phone service through your local phone company, cable company or broadband service provider. Before you go jumping into a package deal to save money on telephone service, learn a little bit about “digital phone service” first - you just might change your mind.

"Digital Phone Service" is a Fancy Marketing Term Meaning "Expensive VoIP"
In an effort to make even more money, cable companies and broadband internet service providers are cashing in on the highly profitable internet phone service market by offering what they call "digital phone service". Digital phone service is a fancy marketing term that is used by resellers to describe VoIP internet phone service that is purchased directly from true VoIP providers and resold to consumers at over 100% markup. Digital phone service is the same internet phone service that you can buy directly from the source and save a ton of money.

Cable companies and broadband internet providers enter an agreement with VoIP providers to re-brand and resell their unlimited local and long distance phone service. VoIP is so low-priced already that the resellers pay about the same price per phone number as a consumer would pay, leaving very little profit margin if they simply sold the service at regular "market" prices. Rather than accept a small profit of only a few dollars per month per subscriber, these resellers use clever marketing tactics that involve re-labeling VoIP to "digital phone service", and bundling it with internet service to give you a special "discount price".

If you purchased the same unlimited VoIP internet phone service on your own, you would pay between $17 to $25 per month, depending on the provider. "Digital phone service" purchased from your cable company or internet provider costs between $40 to $50 per month.

Since most people switch telephone service providers to save money, it makes much better financial sense to use VoIP instead of the bundled phone service offered by local cable, internet, and phone providers.

To ensure that you get the best quality VoIP service, be sure to purchase your internet phone service from a highly rated, well known VoIP provider. Some recommended providers to consider are Vonage, Sunrocket, Packet8, Opex and FonVantage.