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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."
Oh, now you're changing it from ISP's to high-speed ISP's. Still, your argument is flawed since your list is of phone companies who got into the ISP business, or cable companies who did the same.
They were granted monopolies so that they would build the infrastructure necessary to have a phone system. Kind of like the way patents work for inventions. You are an idiot if you think someone is going to spend billions of dollars creating an infrastructure for everyone else to use. The problem isn't monopolies. Limited-term monopolies were necessary. They problem is idiots who think that anarchy in the marketplace is a good idea.
How about you include a list of ISP's that aren't monopolies? Hmmm. Wouldn't fit your libertarian agenda you say?
Dillweed. You can't do decent VOIP without hispeed access. Thus a hispeed ISP is a baseline requirement. Come back when you start paying attention.