NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| reply to Austinloop
Re: LNP Turbo Mode
VoIP is not even close to being regulated the same way as traditional POTS service, for good reasons, so the FCC would first have to put them on the same regulatory playing field as Verizon and ATT. And that isn't very likely.
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX | And that is a real shame. |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by Austinloop  :And that is a real shame. No, it is a good thing. POTS and VOIP service, as they are now, are two vastly different types services. Some of the regulatory requirements placed on POTS are impossible to deliver with VOIP.
I would urge you to first understand why they are regulated differently before you blindly state that it "is a real shame" they are regulated differently.
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX | What requirements, precisely, placed on pots are impossible to deliver?
I have seen ads for one of the VoIP companies saying they are your internet phone company. How are they different if they claim to provide phone service? |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by Austinloop :What requirements, precisely, placed on pots are impossible to deliver? The obvious one - guaranteed uptime.
said by Austinloop :I have seen ads for one of the VoIP companies saying they are your internet phone company. How are they different if they claim to provide phone service? They are a phone company, they provide you with a voice line. that you can use to talk to others on the POTS network.
Phone service comes in different flavors and VoIP is one of several different flavors of phone service. Other phone companies provide you with phone service, but are exempt from the same rules as POTS providers - cell carriers, satellite phone careers, etc.
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX
| Well, unfortunately, if some none technical type older person decides to swallow all that the company I referring to doesn't know that there is no guaranteed up time, possible delays with emergency calls, etc., then maybe, just maybe, the rules should be the same.
But I am sure that the VoIP companies fully explain the downside of their service, including no guaranteed up time fully to new customers.
To the vast majority of people, present forum excepted, phone service is phone service. |
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nitzan
Premium,VIP
join:2008-02-27 | You mean, the same non-technical older person who's never upgraded from dialup? the one who can't use VoIP anyway because they don't have a broadband connection? |
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX | No, someone who has a broadband connection. I know some folks that have broadband connections who are totally lost on the technical end of things. |
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