----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Balashov" <[email protected]>
> On 12/05/2015 05:05 PM, Erik Flournoy wrote: > >> If a packet transverses your entire network as a packet then it's never >> a toll charge. It's a packet. > > Well, right. :-) No provider of voice networks wants value-added > services to go away and be replaced by OTT applications for whom they're > just a low-margin, flat-rate, 95% percentile-billed transport layer. > > To a point, you can understand where they're coming from. They do the > hard, capital-intensive work of building out the network, while some > clever mobile app out of Silicon Valley pockets all the profits. That > wasn't the assumption from which they built anything. And my heart bleeds for them. But so has my wallet, for decades; they've gotten their ROI. And no company is guaranteed the right to continue to make a living, by the law, in whatever field it is currently engaged in. Didn't a Supreme Court Justice say that in an opinion? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
