On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:36 -0500, Cirelle Enterprises wrote: > When the FCC deregulated the phone companies, Verizon took this as an OK > to put the competition out of business. > > They did this to some DSL companies here in the northeast by placing > fiber shunts in the system and blocking dsl access (dsl does not work > over fiber) so the dsl companies could not service a fairly large > segment of the population "sorry but dsl is not available in your area". > > They are currently working on local telco companies, by providing > intermittant service to their customers, with a follow up phone call to > switch to Verizon for better service! > > VIOP is a threat to their phone business, which appears to be a cash > cow, and they certainly will try to protect "Their" investment. > > my 2cents >
Phone companies are not totally deregulated, and I believe I heard that the FCC ruled (after the fact) that they could not outright block VoIP service. There are devices being marketed and p[resumably sold to ISPs that cause a high amount of jitter virtually making it impossible to connect. I could be wrong about all this, I dont have anything to cite offhand, but if one were interested I would recommend google, the inssue wasnt that long ago when I heard about it, although admittedly I never read anything proper at the time. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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