[78519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adi Linden)
Mon Mar 7 09:46:50 2005
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:45:30 -0600
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
To: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
Cc: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503061437230.12888@bacchus.billn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> If VOIP doesn't run on your network because you've oversold your capacity,
> no amount of QoS is going to put the quality back into your service.
> People will find better ISPs. If you deliberately set QoS to favor your
> services over a competitor, whom your customers are also paying for
> service, you'll be staring down prosecutors, at some point. It's
> anti-competitive behavior, as you're taking deliberate actions to degrade
> the service of a competitor, simply because you can.
Let's say I sell a premium VoIP offering for an additional fee on my
network. I apply QoS to deliver my VoIP offering to my customers but as a
result all other VoIP service is literally useless during heavy use
times you'd consider this anti-competitive behavior?
Adi
