[78526] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Vonage service suffers outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Mon Mar 7 11:04:38 2005
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:03:11 -0000
In-Reply-To: <OF4982A779.82215C3E-ON80256FBD.0057187A-80256FBD.0057F01B@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Companies like Vonage are signing up subscribers because they
> provide real phone service connecting you to copperline
> subscribers on the real phone network. That is their business
> model. Verizon could sell exactly the same sort of service to
> subscribers in California leveraging the Internet last mile
> in exactly the same way as Vonage.
> Vonage and Verizon are just phone companies, not VoIP companies.
Michael - you've been drinking way to much coffee today.