steven s
Premium
join:2002-09-14
Dearborn, MI | Who cares?
I am getting so sick of all of this VoIP News!! ARG! |
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting | Oh I do Declare! The single most important event in the broadband industry that happened today being posted to a website about broadband. The nerve of these people..... |
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tunes
join:2002-01-31
Grosse Ile, MI
 ·Vonage
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I care. I means that a blossoming industry won't be prematurely saddled with unrealistic regulatory expenses. It means that I can continue to receive all of my communications through one wire. It means that I get to continue using a service that I find both inexpensive and reliable. |
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Aggie Dan
Stop... Reverse That.
Premium
join:2001-01-30
Frisco, TX
clubs:
| This is not a victory for those VoIP companies that provide a complete replacement for POTS lines.
This means that if you are calling from one computer to another computer purely over the internet, then it will be free. In other words stuff like chat clients with voice abilities are still free. As are hardware solutions like FWD.
But, if you are calling a mobile or land line number using this service via someone like Vonage then you still have to wait for a new FCC ruling.
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unclemelba
@wvi.com
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Please! VoIP needs to become a viable option only under the same rules and governance that the telephone industry has. Anything can blossom if given a handout. I see no reason that VoIP providers should have a free ride and have telephone service providers saddles with regulation. What resources, or maybe I should ask, who's resources/infrastructure do you suppose VoIP will benefit from? VoIP needs to pay it's own way or it is unfair. |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Another unregistered Bell shill.
This logic would have prevented FedEx from competing with the US Mail, and would have trucking companies paying subsidies to railroads for the "privilege" of competing.
Bells, you need to learn to stand on your own two feet and quit whining.
Calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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tunes
join:2002-01-31
Grosse Ile, MI
·Vonage
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Give me a break! BTW, why not register and identify yourself? The analogy with FedEx by the last poster is an excellent one, and a good example of why these VoIP company's should exist. The existing bells had the money and the resources to see this technology coming. They could have done the initial heavy lifting toward making this technology viable for their own business plan transition, but they didn't. Instead, they did nothing and now whine about "unfair competition" as free enterprise unfolds around them.
As for the regulations, most of these were put into place when they were the only game in town, commanding their compulsory use by the population at large. If any thing should change, it should be a lessening of the regulation for the existing bells rather than increased regulation for new companies entering the market with vastly different technologies. Most blacksmiths lost their vocation when automobiles came into being, and this situation is no different. Times will change, methods will change and progress will march on. Some choose to engage in futile retro-ism and inevitably become history, while others embrace technology and change and remain part of the present. You choose. |
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mario55
join:2002-02-12
Pompano Beach, FL
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might as well tax the hell out of your internet connection!!!!!!!!! then what ? are you going to pay extra for internet ? id disconnect my line and or find some way to beat the system. im not ganna pay alot for the internet. oh by the way. ever hear of skype! what do u think about that? |
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mario55
join:2002-02-12
Pompano Beach, FL
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i choose you pikachu..... err i had to say that. i choose new technology... bolderdash to high fone rates! man i wish/hope/cantwait till VOIP goes mobile. fone/internet/gameing is what im looking for. like the n-gage mixed with a treo 600 or something. lol |
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