{"id":31262,"date":"2011-06-07T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=31262"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:50:58","slug":"internet-a-necessity-voip-use-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/internet-a-necessity-voip-use-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet a Necessity, VoIP Use Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <em>seems<\/em> like my love for the internet and its importance in my daily life is growing all the time.\u00a0 No question now as\u00a0a new survey and recent announcement by a major cable company affirm\u00a0these\u00a0fuzzy feelings.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Phone Calls survey by\u00a0Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project has found that nearly 25% of online American adults have made internet phone calls.\u00a0 This\u00a0marks a significant increase since the last time this study was done in 2007 when only 8% of users were making online calls.<\/p>\n<p>VoIP use is up, making complete sense\u00a0that Time Warner Cable is considering dropping it&#8217;s &#8220;Triple Play&#8221; bundled package of cable, internet, and digital phone in favor of a standalone broadband internet plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Time Warner\u00a0Cable&#8217;s chief executive Glenn Britt\u00a0substantiates\u00a0sentiments that <a title=\"Cable giving up on 'triple play'?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/topstocks?post=2df7f689-857c-4824-9ace-6754d6a78345\" target=\"_blank\">the internet is just too painful to live without<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;People are telling us that if they were down to their last dollar, they&#8217;d drop broadband last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VoIP use is up as internet becomes a household staple and a service provider has noticed.\u00a0 Can we get more attractive broadband deals now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like my love for the internet and its importance in my daily life is growing all the time.\u00a0 No question now as\u00a0a new survey and recent announcement by a major cable company affirm\u00a0these\u00a0fuzzy feelings. The Internet Phone Calls survey by\u00a0Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project has found that nearly 25% of online American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189143,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions\/189143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}