calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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Re: interesting
Well, it's phone service, so it's governed by tariffs, not some TOS on a webpage.
Additionally, resale of local phone service to the same class of customer is expressly authorized by the Telecom Act of '96--there are serious legal hurdles to any effort to ban resale. (47 USC 251(b)(1)) (Not that this will stop the ILECs from trying.)
Some ILEC monopolists are probably higher on the panic meter today because of this--but they're late to the party.
calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
| reply to Tracker09
Since telephone usage is a service they can amend the TOS so tha any usage by those not authorized by the seller is fraudulent use.
Remember the day when the telcos charged per phone and would ocassionally test a subscribers line for additional phone ringers? |
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Tracker09
join:2004-02-05
New Haven, CT
1 edit | reply to Tikker_LoS
I'm sure that the Phone Companies who are providing the unlimited long distance to people other than their customers are going to be real happy with this. This doesn't sound legal. |
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Tikker_LoS
join:2004-04-29
Regina, SK
 ·SaskTel Saskatchewan
| Weird part is, couple of us at work were talking about setting something like this up ourselves
Not on such a grandiose scale tho
Just using modems that would allow us to reach our home networks, then from there out to whereever
This lead to the idea that we could share each other's lines, etc
small world |
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