SAN JOSE-Decide.com introduced the Decide.com Web site, where consumers can identify, compare and purchase telecommunications products and services based on how they will use them.
The company also announced Wireless Test Drive, a feature that lets consumers actually see where cellular service call quality reception is best and worst in their area, and hear the call quality of any provider’s wireless service exactly where they’ll be using their phone.
“At Decide.com, we are dedicated to providing consumers with the unbiased information and objective help they need to cut through the noise and make the best decision possible,” said Roy Prasad, president and chief executive officer of Decide.com.
Visitors to the site can choose to create a customer profile by answering a few basic questions about their expected use of the service, or they can choose one of the pre-determined profiles that best reflects their calling patterns, the company said.
Decide.com features the Intellimatch process that automatically maps all of the plans available to individual calling patterns. The recommendation engine then calculates estimated monthly cost.
For long-distance service, the consumer can compare all of the plans from the top six providers. For wireless plans, all the major providers within each of the top 50 metropolitan markets can be evaluated and compared.
Decide.com said it is continuously performing its own testing of all wireless providers in the top markets. The company has a fleet of vans that drive around in the major metropolitan areas placing cellular calls every 90 to 100 seconds and evaluating call quality.
