[138133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Mon Feb 28 13:41:23 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:41:13 -0500
From: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D6BE974.5060402@spectraaccess.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/28/2011 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote:
>>
>> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for
>> people on this list, not my mother.
>>
>> --
>> Leigh
>>
>>
> Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be
> whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year!
>
>
Very true, remember that VOIP includes Packet Cable (as opposed to SIP
from Vonage etc all) from cable providers which is largely a POTs
replacement service from the end users stand point. Comcast is now a
top 5 phone provider in the US. This is anecdotal, but most of the
Magic Jack (which is SIP AFAIK) purchases I see are non-technical people.
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