Cloud remains very expensive for stable user loads, because there remains no means to compare compute capacity between offers.
Amazon suffers no price competition.
The price of Amazon's original small instance remains unchanged after four years.
30 providers might use 23 different compute metrics.
See http://cloudpricecalculator.com/ as a first pass ranking of providers by mapping all providers to ECU's
Except, Barack did use the old Bushism *Fear* pitch "The safety of the American people is more important that holding the telephone companies accountable..." to justify his support for the FISA bill with telecom immunity.
Sipphone follows FWD's model closely. It likely represents the first of many similar initiatives. The lack of connectivity with the PSTN does not represent much of an obstacle. Not many people had email only five years ago. Everyone has it today. Same for SIP compliant phones. The PSTN needs connectivity more than the VoIP providers.
Check out freeworlddialup.meetup.com for meetup.com organized meetings on this topic.
The government got into the telecom regulation business to throttle abuses of the AT&T monopoly. There exist no inherent reason to regulate telephone service. Forget the idea regulation obtains low cost, reliable service. Forget the idea the Universal Service program helps the poor. Telephone service remains out of reach for the poor. The monopolies doubled the cost of service in the last 10 years. Forget subsidies. Telecommunications proved the worst performing information technology sector during the 20th century. Pick any metric. Cost performance improvements. Employment growth. Revenue growth. The breakup of AT&T in 1984 made some aspects of telecom competitive and left some under monopoly control. Check the relative performance of the two. Consider what might have happened if the government decided to regulate computing. We would still be sharing time on an IBM 360 and paying by the minute.
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Cloud remains very expensive for stable user loads, because there remains no means to compare compute capacity between offers. Amazon suffers no price competition. The price of Amazon's original small instance remains unchanged after four years. 30 providers might use 23 different compute metrics. See http://cloudpricecalculator.com/ as a first pass ranking of providers by mapping all providers to ECU's
Except, Barack did use the old Bushism *Fear* pitch "The safety of the American people is more important that holding the telephone companies accountable..." to justify his support for the FISA bill with telecom immunity.
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Sipphone follows FWD's model closely. It likely represents the first of many similar initiatives. The lack of connectivity with the PSTN does not represent much of an obstacle. Not many people had email only five years ago. Everyone has it today. Same for SIP compliant phones. The PSTN needs connectivity more than the VoIP providers. Check out freeworlddialup.meetup.com for meetup.com organized meetings on this topic.
The government got into the telecom regulation business to throttle abuses of the AT&T monopoly. There exist no inherent reason to regulate telephone service. Forget the idea regulation obtains low cost, reliable service. Forget the idea the Universal Service program helps the poor. Telephone service remains out of reach for the poor. The monopolies doubled the cost of service in the last 10 years. Forget subsidies. Telecommunications proved the worst performing information technology sector during the 20th century. Pick any metric. Cost performance improvements. Employment growth. Revenue growth. The breakup of AT&T in 1984 made some aspects of telecom competitive and left some under monopoly control. Check the relative performance of the two. Consider what might have happened if the government decided to regulate computing. We would still be sharing time on an IBM 360 and paying by the minute.