pkust
join:2001-08-09
Houston, TX
| Naivete is no defense
Straight from the VoicePulse web site:
"Our broadband phones use the latest technology to send your calls over the Internet to bring you the greatest features, save you money and still give you stable, reliable phone service!"
If these companies don't want to be treated like telephone companies, why do they keep presenting themselves as telephone companies? I have no great love for the Baby Bells, but anyone who sticks his chin out has no right to complain when he gets smacked in the face.
It's worth noting that nowhere on Verizon Wireless' web site do they claim to be any manner of telephone company--the language is "wireless communications". I do not believe this is coincidence.
Rightly or wrongly, telephone companies are subject to regulation by each state's PUC (or equivalent). Rightly or wrongly, "telephone service" is regulated by each state's PUC (or equivalent).
Corporate managers who are ignorant of the legal minefields surrounding their core business are either incompetent, naive, or (more likely) both.
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Cordially,
Peter Nayland Kust
pkust@smsysinc.com
Secure Mobile Systems, Inc.
www.smsysinc.com |
