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join:2002-04-15 Tacoma, WA
| reply to wentlanc Re: Do nothing
That's the way it should work, but it doesn't. First of all, all of them want to tier it. They all have their own VOIP service and want to prioritize it, while degrading traffic of other VOIP providers. Charging content providers for priority on their networks is simply something extra. Sadly the true problem lies in US consumers. If you'll examine how majority of US customers deal with service changes, you'll notice that when service degrades they don't switch. Sure, a few people will scream and few will look for alternatives (which aren't going to be many), but for the most part they endure. You think people will look for a new ISP (if they'll find one that doesn't tier their network) just because Google loads 30s slower or Vonage garbles every so many minutes? NO, people will just blame Vonage and Google for providing bad service. |