[78572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage service suffers outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Mar 10 10:05:33 2005
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:04:28 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050307160313.B777B39936@equinox.DOMINO.ORG>; from "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG> on Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:03:11PM -0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:03:11PM -0000, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > 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.
Naw; Michael has it exactly right, and more power to him.
Cheers,
-- jra
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