fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to DonLibes
Re: Unfair Comparison Verizon is being stipped by the likes of vonage because they didn't wake up and smell the coffee years ago.
They, and all of ma bell, hid behind their own cockyness and sat back and said things like "cable is not a threat to us" and "vonage is no threat"... well? It's a threat.. now they are scrambling.
Funny too.. the very thing that the bells did by thumbing their noses at impending competition is the very thing Brian Roberts of Comcast just recently did, only I never heard anyone here give the telco company crap over it like they are Brian.
(don, this post is not meant to be a direct dig at you.. just adding to your post and adding another thought) |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | With regard to Vonage, not only are they scrambling but one of the AT&T head honchos said he's tired of Vonage "using his lines for free." He's trying to convince our legislators that somehow Vonage is getting a free ride and that they should not vote for net neutrality. If the backbone providers have their way, Vonage will be paying $10/month per customer to the backbone providers and then their prices will be "competitive" with regular telcos.
If net neutrality becomes law, I would look for voice and possibly even video communications to become essentially free. Right now Vonage's big play is that they connect VOIP users to the traditional POTS system. Once VOIP is in the majority, look for that interconnect to become increasingly less valuable. Once almost everyone is VOIP, you won't need Vonage in the middle and voice will be free just like Skype is today between all VOIP customers. If this happens, the ILECs will no longer have voice business.
The next industry to suffer will be wireless cell carriers. If WiFi becomes pervasive and continues to advance both speed and the reliability, VOIP wins again. The cellular carriers will also become "dumb" pipes as folks use it for mobile Internet access over which they use VOIP to make their calls.
What we have now is a panic and everyone is trying to figure out how to get their meat hooks into regulation or lack thereof so they can leverage their monopolies to stay in the game. |
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said by fiberguy:Funny too.. the very thing that the bells did by thumbing their noses at impending competition is the very thing Brian Roberts of Comcast just recently did, only I never heard anyone here give the telco company crap over it like they are Brian. I have given grief to Ma Bell on more than a few occasions.
I have repeatedly said that if the phone company had done ISDN (and later DSL) right, that there would be no other competition. Much like Microsoft, Ma Bell mis-judged what the internet has become.
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