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Anyone know which rural LECs might be involved? I find it interesting that it isnt an MSO or RBOC doing the blocking - perhaps the greater lawyer:engineer ratio at those organizations prevents it? The other interesting aspect is that there seems to be a bit of a persecution complex on the part of some VoIP providers. Of course, even paranoids have enemies, as they say :) -- Daniel Golding Network and Telecommunications Strategies Burton Group On 2/15/05 1:22 PM, "Majdi Abbas" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:53:59AM -0600, Adi Linden wrote: >> How is this any different then blocking port 25 or managing the bandwidth >> certain applications use. > > If the article is correct, and the ISP involved is also a LEC, then > it would be pretty clearly anticompetitive, and the LECs have some legal > obligations to provide access to their customers. > > I don't think any such restriction would also apply to a > normal ISP, but that could change. We'll see. > > --msa
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