 roamer1sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA | It's not the big guys! This is not an issue with companies like Comcast blocking or degrading alternative VoIP providers to get people to use their VoIP; it's apparently rural ILECs trying to keep LD traffic on their PSTN networks so they can continue to rake in access charges. From the article:
"According to Powell, his understanding is that the blocking is not coming from major service providers, but from rural Local Exchange Carriers (LECs)."
Keep in mind that rural ILECs, unlike RBOCs and the largest independent ILECs (the former GTE side of VZ, Sprint LTD, Frontier Rochester, etc.) pretty much live off USF subsidies and access charges from LD calls, and many (but not all) will do virtually anything in their power to keep from losing their cash cows.
-SC
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