CCTVTech
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join:2003-04-23
Phoenix, AZ
clubs: | To Block Or Not To?
This is going to get interesting fast.
Will the ISP's block VoIP and face bad publicity and lawsuits or will they allow it while selling their own VoIP?  |
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TKJunkMail
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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4 edits |  Vonage lawyers gearing up for big drop in business
It is probably just the Vonage lawyers gearing up for big drop in business and getting all their excuses in order for all the lawsuits they plan on filing later. They know that all the cable companies and telcos are moving into the VOIP business and they probably realize they are already dead meat. This is just their way of laying some kind of legal basis to claim damages for the implosion of their company.
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spamd
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Rockford, IL | Worm's ??
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Matt
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC | Just one more....
...reason I would never use a 3rd party VoIP provider.
This is exactly why I pay $15 more a month for Time Warner Digital Phone, so I don't have these headaches. |
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brooklynstar1
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join:2004-12-23
Naugatuck, CT
clubs: | Gotcha Bells right here!
Gotta love free commerce!! This is a good example of the bells kicking you in yours then running for the hills. |
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woody7
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Torrance, CA |  I love this
This is the crap that makes America so great:D
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shashinka
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West Boylston, MA
1 edit | Scary, OOL User Informed Me Yesterday of this
I was in a class this week and an Optimum Online User said that he was forced to use OOL's VOIP Service because he had tried others and they were being blocked. He was located about 60 miles North of Manhattan.
This is awful, that would be like Verizon blocking me from calling Cingular to sign-up for cell service or calling AT&T for LD.
Makes my stomach turn. |
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DaveNJ
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New Jersey | Its should be made illegal real fast
I cant think of any reason that this should be allowed. The whole idea of Voip was to increase competition in the industry. The FCC needs to put a stop to this real fast. |
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shashinka
join:2000-09-16
West Boylston, MA | reply to Matt
Re: Just one more....
I see, just feed the large companies that are causing the problems. |
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HardwareGeek
join:2003-11-15
Brooklyn, NY | Didn't the FCC already say it was a small ISP
I believe they said it was a small ISP |
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Greg_Z
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Springfield, IL
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Re: Its should be made illegal real fast
No, the FCC needs to put a stop to these VoIP companies that have bad business sense, and have more horror stories then good.
Face it, Venture Capital only goes so far, and you will start seeing these independant VoIP companies start to get ate up within the next 5-8 years.
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DaveNJ
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1 edit | said by Greg_Z  :No, the FCC needs to put a stop to these VoIP companies that have bad business sense, and have more horror stories then good. Face it, Venture Capital only goes so far, and you will start seeing these independant VoIP companies start to get ate up within the next 5-8 years. I dont understand how that relates to network access ? Basicly there are blocking communications, solely for there benefit. Even the bells cant do that, Verizon is my provider, yet i have local and long distance from sprint. |
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shashinka
join:2000-09-16
West Boylston, MA | reply to HardwareGeek
Re: Didn't the FCC already say it was a small ISP
OOL is not small. |
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garagerock
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Louisville, KY | reply to DaveNJ
Re: Its should be made illegal real fast
Agreed. It's bad business sense to expect providers to not block ports?? |
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HardwareGeek
join:2003-11-15
Brooklyn, NY | reply to shashinka
Re: Didn't the FCC already say it was a small ISP
I am a OOL user and a Vonage user. Cablevision isn't blocking vonage.
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HardwareGeek
join:2003-11-15
Brooklyn, NY | reply to shashinka
Re: Scary, OOL User Informed Me Yesterday of this
He probably didn't set it up correctly then because I am an OOL user and Vonage user for a year and a half now.
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shashinka
join:2000-09-16
West Boylston, MA | Interesting, I will make sure I tell him about this thread then. |
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CCTVTech
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join:2003-04-23
Phoenix, AZ
clubs: | Told Ya
I told ya this would get interesting.
I have been using Vonage for serveral months and not had any problems at all, now if I started having trouble and it was proven to be Qwest blocking my VoIP service there would be he** to pay. |
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Engineer88
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join:2000-12-01
Smithtown, NY | reply to shashinka
Re: Scary, OOL User Informed Me Yesterday of this
Ask him to IM me. OOL does not intentionally block any outside VOIP service, and I've never heard of any OOL customer having a problem like that. |
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cptmiles
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join:2004-04-22
Swayzee, IN
| QoS
The FCC has not set a Quality of Service Standard on VOIP. If the FCC did set a standard and forced the VOIP companies to pay the Bells, Time Warners and Comcasts of the world to interconnect and prioritize VOIP packets, pricing of VOIP companies will go right to the same level as TDM, which, by the way, has FCC QoS standards. Why should the Bells and the Cable companies who have spent real dollars to build extensive networks let someone else use their lines to make money on a product they can do themselves? The only way that will work is if the government took over all communication companies and forced open standards (ain't gonna happen). I say enjoy the cheap VOIP products while you have them, they are soon to go by the way of the pet rock and leg warmers. |
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