nitzanPremium,VIP
join:2008-02-27
kudos:2 | Vonage wins = customers win! (in this case) You guys keep saying "Vonage should pay", "Vonage shouldn't pay". Let me remind you for a minute - Vonage pays nothing into USF. it's the customer that pays into the USF.
As a provider, I am totally against having to pay into the USF not because I will have to pay it - I won't. I am against it because my customers will have to pay it.
USF, E911, and all the other junk fees regulators are trying to force-feed VoIP consumers will eventually drive business overseas if allowed to continue. If a consumer can pay a company in Germany half of what they pay a US-based company for the exact same service, what motivation would they have to stay with the American company?
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Nitzan Kon, CEO
Future Nine Corporation |
| For that matter, you don't pay gas, electric, fed taxes, fica, sit, unemployment, real estate taxes, employees, etc...they all all drive business...they all suck. pass all the costs on line item....give us a contract of 0 plus fees... lol
To answer your question...
Why should a german entrepreneur not invest in competing with you (even services are exportable if the dollar is cheap enough)?
Why not pass through all your costs as force fed? Pretty sure we'd we'd all like to make money without spending any...
said by nitzan:You guys keep saying "Vonage should pay", "Vonage shouldn't pay". Let me remind you for a minute - Vonage pays nothing into USF. it's the customer that pays into the USF. As a provider, I am totally against having to pay into the USF not because I will have to pay it - I won't. I am against it because my customers will have to pay it. USF, E911, and all the other junk fees regulators are trying to force-feed VoIP consumers will eventually drive business overseas if allowed to continue. If a consumer can pay a company in Germany half of what they pay a US-based company for the exact same service, what motivation would they have to stay with the American company? |
