Skype Handset
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jul 5 13:06:21 UTC 2006
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...
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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
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