[78480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Allen Stratton)
Fri Mar 4 17:12:55 2005
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:12:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: trainier@kalsec.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <OF5180BCC3.AF1FDB34-ON85256FBA.0072F40A-85256FBA.0073E29B@mail.kalsec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
> Seems to me that said company "BroadVoice?" was attempting to prevent the
> use of VoIP in an effort to prevent competition
> with it's current phone customers. It's kind of a tough issue to deal
> with, if you think about it.
Hold, BroadVoice is a VoIP service provider I work for, I was just saying
I am speaking as Nathan, not as BroadVoice.
> There are two sides to the issue:
>
> 1.) FCC doesn't want companies preventing other companies from competing.
> 2.) On the other hand, how do you tell a company what services it can or
> can't block?
>
> The fact is, the company was preventing it's users from using technology
> offered by said company's competitors.
No, they are just preventing companies that are using port X, most
providers have figured out how to make VoIP work on any port.
-Nathan
