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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Vonage service suffers outage
--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. I think the final nail in this coffin is the Vonage banner ad/masthead which describes them as "the broadband phone company." If they're going to claim to be a phone company, it's reasonable that phone company regulations regarding 911, outage reporting, etc should all apply to them. David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com NEW ALBUM, "The Sound and the Furry" available at http://www.cdbaby.com/thefranchise __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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