NOCMan MacChatter Premium join:2004-09-30 Colorado Springs, CO
I'm against this
Clearly it should be illegal for a company to block VOIP as that restricts free speech. The FCC I believe said just as much. Also many ISP's have default monopoly status on certain segments on the population. For them to block VOIP and provide their own solution in a use it or use nothing attitude automatically voids their default monopoly protections in that case as now they are attempting to squash competition.
Also their quote in the AUP does not hold water. So basically they could restrict everything down to AOLIM and web traffic, block FTP, Torrent and any other download service and still claim to be a ISP? I doubt it.
This company risks the backlash of it's customers and unfortunately if enough complaints roll in the FCC will get serious with them and that 15,000 fine another company incurred will look like pocket change.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure if clearwire was the mexican ISP or a ISP in the USA. If it's a ISP in Mexico then none of the above can really apply.
Agreed. Cable providers are not obligated to give you unresrticed access to the Playboy or Al Jazeera channels as a matter of free speech. -- Networking: WRT54G V2 /ISP: Rogers Extreme /VoIP: Vonage
