[79166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Mar 31 13:04:11 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503301658330.30763@bacchus.billn.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:03:35 -0500
From: "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>, "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: "Greg Boehnlein" <damin@nacs.net>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Bill Nash <billn@billn.net> wrote:
> I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm reimbursing
> my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly tithe.
Not proportional to the potential cost of providing the service.
I have no idea what my cable company pays for their bandwidth, but I am
certain it's more than the $40 per month I pay for my 3Mbps down/256 Mbps
up... and I am able to actually *get* 3Mbps on many occasions, and I average
between 1 and 2 (on HTTP/FTP transfers, fwiw).
Yes, I know the connectivity cost is shared between several thousand customers
in this area, but what happens if large numbers of customers start using VOiP
on a regular basis?
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