LazMan
join:2003-03-26
Angus, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Vonage asked for it...
And now they got it.
Vonage went to great pains to have itself declared an "application provider" not a telco; thus not being required to meet telco guidelines for life-safety, interconnect, and tarrifing; as well as for tax reasons.
Now the other side of that choice comes out - since, by their own definition, they (Vonage) are providing an application; I'm not aware of any law preventing ISP's from blocking them. It's no different then ISP's that throttle/block P2P or SMTP traffic. It's the ISP's facilities, they can technically do what they want. If the consumer doesn't like it, they are free to change ISPs.
Just my $0.02 cdn...
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