[138135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Feb 28 13:49:12 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:48:51 +0000
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said:
>> 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.
>=20
>> Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be=20
>> whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year!
>=20
> I do believe that the ILEC's are mostly losing POTS lines to cell =
phones, not
> to VoIP. I myself have a cell phone but no POTS service at my home =
address. On
> the other hand, I *am* seeing a metric ton of Vonage and Magic Jack =
ads on TV
> these days - if VoIP is "too niche", how are those two making any =
money?
>=20
I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack or =
any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever.=20
It is quite a different market here. I can get POTS services over the =
same copper from, I'd say, about 5 different companies. Maybe more, I =
have not counted. I guess the competition already available on the =
copper would largely preclude anything but the cheapest VoIP service.
--
Leigh
