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Vonage Says VoIP Traffic Blocked By Providers
Anonymouse writes "Advanced IP Pipeline reports that Vonage has filed numerous complaints with the FCC over their VoIP traffic being blocked by major providers, something providers have long worried about but had not yet been seen 'in the wild.' Analysts expect the issue of network neutrality (or network discrimination) is only going to get larger as the bell and cable companies expand their VoIP efforts and bump heads with smaller providers."
IT sounds like the FCC is not going to take up the fight. These are not the VOIP's your looking for. Move along , Move along!
I'd like to agree. But they do control content through their routers, based on protocol flags (port bits) in the headers. So they don't target VoIP "content", so much as SIP and related protocols. To fit the parallel you describe, they'd have to stop all P2P traffic, email, and web content by protocol, regardless of its content. That said, this anticompetitive practice is not only duplicitous, but clearly violates their responsibility as common carriers, and often as monopolies.
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This is what the Bush FCC appears to have planned for you.
Oh no! Bias! How can I trust any of this information when you're biased?
Ha ha ha, just kidding.
Docket #04-405
Docket #04-440
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Remember, this is what "economic freedom" is all about. I don't want the government telling me what traffic I can and can't block with my Baby Bell. That would be communism- and we all know how that turned out.