that's exactly the point. NO ONE WILL SELL YOU PRIS because you will
be their competitors. its not a matter of being profitable, it's a
matter of the incumbent LEC applying monopolistic power towards you.
if, on the other hand, you have a license, the incumbent doesnt have a
choice, and has to sell you PRIs.
OK. Still, according to:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/israel-not-blocking-voip.asp
You said:
"Hello,
I am Yair Hakak, regulatory economist with the Israel Ministry of
Communciations. Here is a copy of a letter I sent Jeff Pulver about our
VOIP regulatory policy. In short, a tempest in a teacup, and we are
certainly not going to block or filter traffic in any way. Our orders to
the ISP were about very specific piratical activities, and not in any
way addressed to VoIP endusers."
If your stance is so much in favor of those small businesses, how come
you're describing them as having "piratical activities"?
If telcos NEVER sell them PRIs, how come those business exist?
Why have you specifically asked ISPs /not/ to sell them bandwith?
It looks like there is some severe "impedance mismach" between the very
liberal stance you're taking and what you're asking ISPs to do.
I understand why it's good to have licensing schemes for bigger players
and people who need to interconnect properly. But I fail to see why
unlicensed business - especially in the grey routing market where 911 is
a non issue - should be disallowed to exist. Would you care to explain?
trust me, they don't. they'd much rather we left them alone. remember
also that in israel a CLEC cannot be an international provider, and
vice versa. There is total separation between markets, mainly to
prevent the former monopolist from using it's monopolistic profits in
one market to kill another. the international calling providers (who
are also the large ISPs) are in a very competitive market.
I don't criticize the fact that telcos are obliged to sell to licensed
competitors. I criticize the fact that ISPs are asked to cut off
unlicensed ones which are described as "piratical" when in fact I'm sure
they are paying taxes and social contributions on the wages and profits
they distribute.
It raises entry barriers, which means less competition, which in turn
means more profit. It also means less jobs and less a competitive
economy but I'm not going to give a class on the benefits of free
markets here.
I am a regulatory economist, with an emphasis on economist. no offense
meant, but i could give the class.
I am not attacking your credibility. At the same time, being a
"regulatory economist" doesn't make your argument any more or less valid
than it already was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority
our way is free :-)
Well this is just nice!
just out of curiosity, what country are you from?
France. More specifically, I operate in Reunion Island which is French
overseas island.
again, please take all my comments as part of a constructive dialogue,
no offense meant.
Same here. At least we agree on /that/ :)
Cheers,
Jean-Michel.
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