[78574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage service suffers outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Thu Mar 10 13:06:19 2005
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:05:52 -0800 (PST)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: 6667
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
I think the final nail in this coffin is the Vonage
banner ad/masthead which describes them as "the
broadband phone company."
If they're going to claim to be a phone company, it's
reasonable that phone company regulations regarding
911, outage reporting, etc should all apply to them.
David Barak
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