How ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP

ravenII writes "PBS's i'Cringley's informative piece gives an eye-opening look at the anticompetitive behavior of some ISPs who are showing up late to the VoIP game. This is not something that could be easily mandated, and the beauty of this approach is that they're not explicitly doing anything to the 3rd party service applications. They're just identifying and tagging their own services, which is within their rights."

Comments

Another dupe?

[Anonymous Coward]

You know it's bad when the feature link in the "new" story is already colored dark from being followed.

Robert X. Cringely is a sick, sick man

[pyrrhonist]

First he says:

establishes a virtual voice circuit to your girlfriend in Bulgaria so you can listen to each other's heavy breathing.

Then he says:

Your grandmother wouldn't understand. Or she might if she's Bulgarian.

Just what the hell is he suggesting here?

Re:I, Cringe

[Anonymous Coward]

Speaking of harnessing distributed vortals: it is highest time that one-to-one ISPs started to monetize out-of-the-box paradigms by facilitating bleeding-edge interfaces to interactive VoIP-schemas.

Their failure to enhance agile paradigms was leading them to reinvent best-of-breed mindshare and extended the loss-loss metrics of their collaborative e-services.

Just my 2 bilions of Google-shares (0.2c).

Re:It's going to be bad, in theory

[Barnoid]

now I'm just a conslutant on the Cisco side...

is that the female form of consultant? ;)

Re:This indeed disproves the myth of capitalism

[shadowbearer]

Duh.

Obviously anarchy is the most powerful medium for innovation ;~0

SB

Re:It's going to be bad, in theory

[Anonymous Coward]

No, slut applies to both genders of consultant.

i can see the headlins now....

[teksno]

NEW CAUSE OF DEATH: LAG!!!

operator:"hello, 911 emergency."

random person being killed my a madman: "HE...... ......LP... .........me. my address i...(10 minutes later)lane. HEL...P ME.....pleas.....eeeeeeeeeee"

operator: "miss can you please repeat that."

R.P.B.K.B.M.M.: I SA.......

hours later police arive on the scene to find a psycho wearing our poor victams skin as a trendy new blazer. The coroner arrives shorlty there after and rules that the cause of death was none other then...LAG!!!

wow i guess gamers had it right all along. lag really does kill

Re:This indeed disproves the myth of capitalism

[BobPaul]

Running Linux is like owning a Lightsaber. It's "a more elegant weapon for a more civilized time."

And it cauterizes as it cuts off your arm...

If VoIP packets get priority

[Andy_R]

It won't be long before people switch to TCP/IP over VoIP.

Re:capitalism isn't dead, but ...

[jacksonj04]

I doubt many users would know VoIP if it came up, slapped them in the face, hijacked their phone line, and cut their phone bill in half.