By Bruce Galle
Telecom Consultant
Wizard Communications
CHAPTER
2: You Need NOT Sacrifice Quality of Connections
The quality
of your connections should be of importance to you. After all, who wants
static in the background when making long distance calls.
All the
recommended providers throughout this book utilize one of or more of the
major underlying carriers that support the majority of voice and data
traffic via fiber optic connections, Sprint, WorldCom, Global Crossing,
Qwest...
Utilizing
any one or combination of the major underlying carriers, you are less
likely to incur an outage! These main carriers have the lines already
in place as well as highly trained technicians who can usually locate
a possible problem even before it occurs.
Even
though news occasionally highlights a major underlying carrier which may
be experiencing some financial issues, here is the truth and why you need
not be concerned.
With
each supporting a majority of the traffic, the U.S. Government realizes
that if anyone of them were to go down, the economy in this Country and
perhaps globally, would collapse. This does not include individual long
distance providers, but rather the underlying carriers themselves. Thus
the reason I stress using a qualified, reputable long distance company
so as not to be left stranded without any long distance service one day.
Secondly,
most of the creditors want the companies to remain operational so as to
keep the revenue stream flowing. This is in their best interest as to
continue to collect monies owed them.
In the
worst case scenario, if one or more of the major carriers were to fall,
they would be kept operational while permitting another to come in and
take control.
State
laws prohibit a long distance provider from raising rates without 30 to
90 days notice to the consumer (varies according to State regulations).
This gives you more then ample time to search out, sign up and be provisioned
to another provider in the event rates were to be increased.
In short,
do not panic over all the news being highlighted today. You will not be
left stranded with a reputable provider since they have the ability to
switch your carrier in the event of an emergency to keep your phone lines
operational!
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