Mark Rejhon
join:2004-02-02
Ottawa, ON
 ·Magma Communications
4 edits | reply to damn
Re: [it's cool] Poor IP Relay operators...
Some businesses are no longer accepting relay calls because of »ip_relay_scams.aimoo.com ...
Fortunately, more relay services are blocking foreign IP addresses, but that helps only to a certain extent.
The IP-Relay services is intended for use by the hearing impaired who cant make phone calls. It is also a waste of USA taxpayer money -- The USA FCC pays the relay operator companies approximately $1.50 per minute for servicing all phone calls. If you do not want to pay more taxes, it is likely best to leave the IP-Relay service to critical uses by the people who really need them.
It is funny that some of them actually encourage these joke calls; because MCI wants to earn more money from FCC (even though it comes out of the USA taxpayer pocket). That is why they have not added passwords yet, they encourage high traffic of phone calls, and the big companies profit from these joke calls; in addition to legitimate calls; there's virtually no security yet for IP-Relay.
Yes, IP-Relay is taxpayer funded, the exact figure was something close to $1.50 per minute. If a company has 200 operators at $1.50 per minute, that's well over $10,000 per hour even taking into account of idling (paid by taxpayers to big companies like MCI, Sprint, AT&T, who all run online relay) -- lucractive money worth many millions of dollars annually. All out of your taxpayer pocket.
The company running these IP-Relay systems actually encourage these joke calls to earn more taxpayer subsidized profit. Imagine that! |
As usual Mark Rejhon 