Liberty oriented VoIP service!

[error]

Error, what will happen to your service if you get arrested and thrown in jail?

Nothing. Except, perhaps, that nobody will be around to mail out bills to people. Though I have a few ideas on how to handle that. Nobody will get cut off for not paying a bill if I'm not able to send the bills to them.

[porcupine kate]

Error.
I was wondering if I could link this thread and post information on your phone service and Porc 411 in the moving guide for the FSP web site.  The information may also wind up in a print version for the welcome packets at the liberty forum.
Kate

[error]

Sure, I don't see why not.

[error]

Given the weather conditions I'd like to remind subscribers that you can dial 511 from your phone to reach New Hampshire road conditions. But be aware that the stupid government computer on the other end is easily confused, and if you breathe too hard, it will think you want road conditions for route 3.

[Kat Kanning]

Cool, I didn't know that.

[error]

Cool, I didn't know that.

511 is one of those "good ideas" some bureaucrat had about what to do with some unused digits on the telephone keypad. It actually took me a bit of doing to make it work.

[olympus1112]

I don't know if this has been covered but I think a really good program or service is Jajah.com.
The service is basically a VoIP service but it works using your home phone. You use the internet to tekll the service the number to call, it then calls it through its devices, then rings you, so you get an incoming call. (free for most cell phones)
of course you do pay for using it if the person is not a Jajaah.com member.
If they are its free. oh and you can call as much as you want
you can call cell and landlines.
Just a thought.

[error]

Welcome. Now please read the rest of the thread.

[error]

OK, kids, those of you who have this service have noticed that you haven't gotten a bill in quite a while. Today I can announce that you aren't going to get a bill for any previous service charges.

It's recently been made clear to me that in order to charge for telephone service in New Hampshire, I am to collect the state tax and remit it back to the Department of Revenue Administration. As you can well imagine, I am not willing to be the state's tax collector.

This left me with a couple of options: First, I could shut down the service. I am not willing to do that either. Communication is too valuable a tool to lose over some stupid state bureaucrat wanting to get paid at our expense.

The other option, which I've chosen to exercise, is to give away the service for free. I am also making "free" retroactive to the last time you gave me any money. The only thing that I will charge for is the VoIP adapter box, as it is nontaxable (and beyond my means to give away). As before, these will be sold at cost.

This puts the service in a more precarious financial position, of course. And I will gladly accept any donations anyone wants to make toward keeping it alive, whether from subscribers or not.

I will continue to accept new subscribers on these terms.

[J’raxis 270145]

For future customers, try giving away the service for free, but renting the hardware to them at a fixed rate that over time averages out to the costs of the telephone service.

[Russell Kanning]

This puts the service in a more precarious financial position, of course. And I will gladly accept any donations anyone wants to make toward keeping it alive, whether from subscribers or not.

I will continue to accept new subscribers on these terms.

great decisions .... the black market works really well ... when you don't have prices
I am sure you will have decent donations.

[jerry]

The other option, which I've chosen to exercise, is to give away the service for free. I am also making "free" retroactive to the last time you gave me any money. The only thing that I will charge for is the VoIP adapter box, as it is nontaxable (and beyond my means to give away). As before, these will be sold at cost.

I will continue to accept new subscribers on these terms.

Since you are no longer in the business of selling telephone service, does that mean I can buy one of your boxes and use your "free" service from here in Pennsylvania? 

I won't be able to move to NH for a while. 

[error]

Since you are no longer in the business of selling telephone service, does that mean I can buy one of your boxes and use your "free" service from here in Pennsylvania? 

I won't be able to move to NH for a while. 

Sorry, I'm still only accepting New Hampshire residents. Otherwise I have a whole bunch of federal bureaucrats to worry about.

[FTL_Ian]

OK, kids, those of you who have this service have noticed that you haven't gotten a bill in quite a while. Today I can announce that you aren't going to get a bill for any previous service charges.

It's recently been made clear to me that in order to charge for telephone service in New Hampshire, I am to collect the state tax and remit it back to the Department of Revenue Administration. As you can well imagine, I am not willing to be the state's tax collector.

Did someone threaten you?  If so, who?

[Bald Eagle]

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