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| How about... I dont care for muni, I think its a waste of money, unless the townpeople are willing to pay for it. If they pass this they should force, the Telcos to give everyone DSL by 2010, and Fiber by 2020. But to be fair force the Cablecos to give cable to everyone. The Cablecos also should be classified as Phone Companies Also, they provide "Digital Phone", and some phone service like that therefore they're phone companies. Im sure this would be the right thing to do, and is a good idea, but I'm not a congressmen so theres nothing I can do. | |
fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Fireteam... The cableco's that provide DIGITAL phone, not voip, ARE regulated by the State PUCs. Here in the Twin Cities, the DIGITAL PHONE flavor of product IS under PUC regulation because it's a classic switched system. VoIP, on the other hand, is NOT a phone service and I SERIOUSLY see an issue with classigying it as phone service UNTIL it has the same reliability of regular phone.
Since the delivery method os VoIP requires another product that is NOT regualted at this time, there can be NO quality or uptime guarantees of VoIP services.. yet another reason why those people that cry that they can't get 911 service got what they deserved. (And by that I mean.. so you got 911 service, if and when you broadband goes out for what ever reason and you can't make ANY calls, what's the use of forcing 911 in the first place)
Again, VoIP is NOT phone service and has a long way to go until it is. To that? The states can also control that at the PUC level. | |
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It has a dial tone and can call people, That to me is classified as a phone. | |
fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | said by FTCXtreme:It has a dial tone and can call people, That to me is classified as a phone. And there is the problem. This is why we as a people take a good look and try to "organize" and "define" things with thought and not half baked notions. A "phone" is a devise you use to place a call.. Telephone "Service" which is actually what's at point here, is NOT voip. Telephone service, as defined by the government (where it really matters in all intent and purpose) is NOT VoIP. If it were, it would have been classified as such already. It has been ruled as an information service, why? Because it's nothing more than an application that runs on the internet.
Since my cell phone has no dial tone, I guess I shuold not call it a phone?
I knwo what you mean and I get it.. however, it's not just what it means to you which is the real point. "Telephone, as we know it, is "expected" to function in a certain way. Just because some company came up with a piece of software and a few servers and found a way to make a call travel over the internet doesn't mean it's a phone... For that matter, if I can use my computer, speakers, and microphone to place a "call" - is that phone service too? I have vonage - uses a "phone" to place a call, however, with that SAME vonage service, I CAN use my computer with out the "phone" to place a call too. Sorry, but no matter how you look at it, until it is able to function on it's own power, get tied to a physical address, have a true functioning 911 service, and a regulated QoS expectation, it's NOT phone service.
(For the record - the dial tone, in voip, is there for familiarity. It really serves no purpose. In fact, the dial tone you hear comes from your TAD, not the network.) | |
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