On Wednesday July 05 2006 9:06 am, Craig White wrote: > > 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. > Yes, I would guess you're right. As I said, I didn't read the clause carefully because it was not something I was concerned with at the time. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
