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Re: Vonage service suffers outage

  • From: Jay R. Ashworth
  • Date: Thu Mar 10 10:06:27 2005

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:03:11PM -0000, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > Companies like Vonage are signing up subscribers because they 
> > provide real phone service connecting you to copperline 
> > subscribers on the real phone network. That is their business 
> > model. Verizon could sell exactly the same sort of service to 
> > subscribers in California leveraging the Internet last mile 
> > in exactly the same way as Vonage.
> > Vonage and Verizon are just phone companies, not VoIP companies.
> 
> Michael - you've been drinking way to much coffee today.

Naw; Michael has it exactly right, and more power to him.

Cheers,
-- jra
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