bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus | This is really about killing 3rd party VoIP COs BellSouth CTO William L. Smith also told reporters BellSouth should be able to charge VoIP carriers for network traffic QOS (quality of service). As much as this article seems to be about Bellsouth wanting to charge Google, its really about Bellsouth wanting to purposely degrade 3rd party VoIP services and forcing them to pay to have reasonable performance...
As for leaving Bellsouth to go with another provider, its questionable as to whether that will actually solve anything... Any major provider, telco or MSO, who is going to provider VoIP is going to try to pull the same stunt.
I also have to wonder if this type of service degradation is going to affect business class services as well or if this is purposely aimed at residential class services in order to get people to "choose" their uncrippled VoIP service.
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