On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Folken wrote:
[...]
> Telcos hate (any form of) VoIP in userland. Telcos come from a place
> where they can monitor/bill exact usage. To them it sums up to lost
> revenues: [1][2]
Well.. they can still bill you for data usage...
[...]
> Another issue is that Skype causes traffic whilst not in use. Apperantly
> to some statistics posted in some forum I cannot remember: up to a
> gigabyte a month. So they could argue consumer protection.
That's certainly not the general case. I have Skype on my machines at
home as well as at the office. For both connections I get traffic
reports and my traffic hasn't changed much since I installed Skype. I
thought that Skype selects random ports for the service, but in any
case you can select the port yourself (which I had to do to make it
work behind a NAT box).
The sad thing is that Swisscom has a complete &%*ç"&*/@% as speaker,
who tells a newspaper that they do not offer UMTS services for voice,
but only for data traffic. What does he think voice is?? Maybe the
very little Mr. Voicy who carries his voice in a tiny suitcase through
the cables.
- Felix
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Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/
Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/
This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing
purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws.
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