[75584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable and Wireless partners with Reliance to set up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Wed Nov 17 10:15:47 2004
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:13:10 -0500
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <419AD4E7.8070901@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 11:34 PM 11/16/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
>>reference discussions about blocking VOIP from earlier this week (last
>>week?) gov'ts sometimes are made to put in place dumb laws that can not be
>>enforced in order to intimidate people and try to maintain the business of
>>legacy/incumbent carriers :(
>
>C&W being a legacy / incumbent carrier in several countries themselves, it
>will be interesting to see how they cope with this :)
In Panama, they are the incumbent being "protected" by the ban on VOIP.
Was anyone truly surprised C&W failed in the US marketplace? They seem only
able to make money when they're the government-sanctioned monopoly. It'll
be interesting to see if they can handle competition in India any better
than they did in the US.
