If a VOIP provider wants to avoid the label of telephony carrier, they
should be strictly end-to-end service with no connection into the global
PSTN infrastructure. An example of this would be enterprise internal
phone
systems, designed to propagate calls within a single corporate
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:03:11PM -, Neil J. McRae wrote:
Companies like Vonage are signing up subscribers because they
provide real phone service connecting you to copperline
subscribers on the real phone network. That is their business
model. Verizon could sell exactly the same
--- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:03:11PM -, Neil J.
McRae wrote:
Companies like Vonage are signing up subscribers
because they
provide real phone service connecting you to
copperline
subscribers on the real phone network. That is
their
I think the final nail in this coffin is the Vonage
banner ad/masthead which describes them as the
broadband phone company.
If they're going to claim to be a phone company, it's
reasonable that phone company regulations regarding
911, outage reporting, etc should all apply to them.
But
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Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:35 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Vonage service suffers outage
No, what makes this newsworthy is exactly what Om Malik
says: VoIP
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
I think the final nail in this coffin is the Vonage
banner ad/masthead which describes them as the
broadband phone company.
But it's broadband! Shsh. It's an information service. It's IP. These
are not the packets you're looking for.
;)
What all
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Bill Nash
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:57 PM
To: Christian Kuhtz
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Vonage service suffers outage
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
I think
Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. port blocking their service,
this outage couldn't have come at a worse time, methinks.
The outage on Friday left about half of its 500,000
subscribers without phone service for about 45 minutes
and ... was caused by a glitch with a software upgrade
on Thursday
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. port blocking their service,
this outage couldn't have come at a worse time, methinks.
The outage on Friday left about half of its 500,000
subscribers without phone service for about 45 minutes
and ... was
Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. port blocking their service,
this outage couldn't have come at a worse time, methinks.
The outage on Friday left about half of its 500,000
subscribers without phone service for about 45 minutes
and ... was caused by a glitch with a software upgrade
on Thursday
No, what makes this newsworthy is exactly what Om Malik
says: VoIP is being oversold.
http://www.gigaom.com/2005/03/06/voip-has-serious-problems/
- ferg
-- Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. port blocking their service,
this outage couldn't have come at a
No, what makes this newsworthy is exactly what Om Malik
says: VoIP is being oversold.
Let's be clear here. Vonage is not a VoIP company.
They do not offer a VoIP service. They are a phone
company that offers a type of phone service which
leverages VoIP to handle the last mile connection
to
Companies like Vonage are signing up subscribers because they
provide real phone service connecting you to copperline
subscribers on the real phone network. That is their business
model. Verizon could sell exactly the same sort of service to
subscribers in California leveraging the
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