On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 08:54 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Wednesday July 05 2006 1:01 am, Craig White wrote: > > then voice your support for Net Neutrality! > > > > Again, you don't have to by voip all neatly packaged...you can roll your > > own, that's what asterisk is about. > > > > Yes, the last mile is important but they are not permitted to block that > > at this point in time. > > Verizon had a clause in my recent DSL contract which stipulated that if I used > the line for telephony, they could cease offering the service - I did NOT > read the clause closely, and it may have been a clause for my dial-tone only > service rather than my DSL, but, in any event, this discussion makes me want > to dig that up and read it again. I've only recently started using Skype, and > I've had no problems so far. Again, I didn't read the fine print, and I just > remember seeing that clause at the time, and it raising my dander up a bit > with a "how can they do that?" - for all I know, it may have had something to > do with setting up an independent for profit phone service in competition > with their phone offerings, using their DSL circuits, or something like > that... ---- that restriction may be there just in case their lobbying efforts to rescind 'net neutrality' provisions succeed. Setting up a business model on non-QOS bandwidth seems to be very ill-fated. Craig
