Anyone with enough skills can listen to your calls on the rogers
network, but that would imply they also have access to the switching
fabric in which your calls go through., also if you want to be super
secure, get a voip provider that does ipsec connections from you to them
,this will ensure very high security.
Bell copper... mmmmm what can i say here... anyone with a 3$ phone from
wallmart, plyers and aligator clips can listen in on your call :/
Regards,
Philip Mullis.
Chuck Mariotti wrote:
I just wanted to share a phone call I got from Bell and the rather heavy handed
scare tactics they used. I'm not questioning the arguments (not completely),
just the sky is falling tatics..
After many years of Bell bloated bills, I recently switched my phone to another
provider. That ran into issues, so I got fed up with the service and ended up
switching to Rogers Home Phone. I can honestly say, no problemos so far. Of
course, I'm expecting issues some day, but for now, I'm happy.
Anyways, Bell likes to call me to convince me that I made a big mistake. How
because of deregulation, they can now beat the competition's prices (too bad
they didn't do it while I was a customer). About two minutes ago I was told the
issues with Roger's Home Phone were as follows:
1. Because it is a shared cable connection, anyone can listen in on my
conversation.
2. If I call 911, then I go to a switching station, that may or may not
transfer properly to 911 or in a timely manner. As well, they will not know
where I am calling from.
I was a amused to hear this, so I let him explain it all to me. Then I started
hinted a little that I was a little more technical than the average Joe. I
started asking questions about e911 service and how it is that people could
listen into my call, he got discouraged and quickly ended the call.
Anyways, I was a little mad at the call and wonder what the reality is of his
claims and other potential issues with Roger's Home Phone.
I would think the phone packets are QOS and I would think there would be some
level of security / encryption on those packets. I also doubt regulations would
allow this to happen without going through a lot of troubles. But, I don't
REALLY know. I think the biggest concern I have is the battery life on the
phone line is fairly short, in case of an emergency (ala major blackout).
Regards,
Chuck
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