[82587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: You're all over thinking this
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Dupuy)
Fri Jul 22 16:25:52 2005
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:25:22 -0500
To: Austin McKinley <aumckinl@cisco.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net>
In-Reply-To: <42DFC8B6.2060109@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sadly, your suggestion is rational and valid, but not likely to happen.
The official "cost" of a copper pair is on the order of $25 to $50 per
month, depending on the effectiveness of the lobbyists.
"Wait?!", you say, "how is that possible if regular phone service is only
sold for $15 per month?"
Ah, you see they claim that they lose money on their service while
simultaneously posting record profits. That is because business is horrible
and/or great depending on whether legislators or shareholders are in the
room. ILECs are not bound by the laws of the regular universe.
But wild political machinations aside: operationally, using copper pairs
cannot be used the way you described for ... reasons.
John
At 11:09 AM 7/21/2005, Austin McKinley wrote:
>I Am Not a Telco Engineer, BUT:
>What if part of your monthly VoIP service included a stripped down, leased
>PSTN line from the carrier? Say, another 2 bucks a month.
