"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I pay just 12 agorot (!) a minute to call the US and most of Europe > from my home phone. I know that not everybody gets such a great deal > (which I got through my employer), but anyone paying more than 50 > agorot a minute to call the US is overpriced. 5 shekels a minute is > crazy, and perhaps is a price he remembers from a previous decade.
More likely, $1/minute is a listed price (i.e. no deal at all with a long distance provider) from the US to Israel. Even that sounds excessive. When you get a POTS line in the US you subscribe to a single long-distance provider (the likes of this or that baby Bell, MCIm etc.), and they quote you a price. IIRC, even 10 years ago $0.50/minute or less was typical. I think I paid aroung 30 cents back then, and it looked tewrribly expensive. I guess he just assumes that communications are cheaper in the US than elsewhere. Another possibility: he was in Israel recently - maybe he brought his own cell phone and called home and got charged $1/min? Or called from a hotel? However, maybe there is something in what Pulver says? I would prefer network owners and ISPs not to muck around with the traffic, and not block traffic based on protocols or anything of the kind. It is not clear to me what kinds of traffic our Ministry of Communications is supposed to want to block. Let's say I send VoIP packets to someone else in the US. How is my ISP supposed to determine whether I do it legally or not? I suspect there are zillions of arguments pro and contra either way, but the issue does not seem to be clear cut at all, whichever way you lean. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
