 Spiro0
join:2003-08-04
Austin, TX | Vonage isn't a phone, and for DSL is 2nd line Vonage is not local phone service. It is just an interface (a phone number) between your broadband and analog phones. For VoIP to VoIP connections, the phone number is superfluous.
Universal service will always be slightly controversial. Until telephones were invented, no one had a "right" to phone service. In rural areas manufactured goods are usually more expensive due to distance, sparse competition, and lack of scale.
To get DSL, you already are forced to buy local phone service from SBC (or your provider basically is), so Vonage is only good if you need more "lines".
Only people with small businesses, cable modems and no phone line really can make good use of Vonage. Any regulatory action of an industry with so much against it smells of anticompetive practices. |
