Vonage Slams Shaw $10 VoIP Fee > Is this right?

Is this right?

Another reason why this is crazy is because it is $10 a month! I mean come on. Even if it did cost to upgrade/maintain network for good call quality, it wouldn't be $10 a month, we're talking about a very small stream of data when it is used. Maybe a couple of dollars if they could justify it.

reply to dispatcher21
Just think, to make sure it gets "priority" after the first 8 hops, you probably get to pay $10 to that isp too. Think how fast that $10 can compound as your packet hops across the internet.......

reply to shashinka
Assuming G.711 codec @ 20ms a Cisco 7246VXR is capable of about 53-55 calls per upstream. A typical upstream should have about 250-300 subscribers. So it may be small for a single user but when all users making calls are added together it's more of an issue. But I agree with you, 10$ is waaay too much for this! I could see it for 2-3$ maybe 5$ max but 10$ is a rip-off.
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reply to tdumaine
Well I think a majority of the issues wuold happen at the ISP level and not the transport providers but anything can happen of course.

reply to Nick
I believe this is only the case if the router is acting as a VOIP gateway. When converted from analog to IP in your ATA then it would be data packets just like any other transfer and the router would be able to handle whatever its backplane/processor/connections can handle. This router could have mutliple gig connetions to various places.

reply to shashinka
Well, transport providers usually try to stay ahead of the game by providing huge bandwidth pipes. You're right, the issues would probably occur at the ISP first. And that's why Shaw may want to sell optional QoS service.