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On the attack, are we? Its a free market. If folks don't like what unregulated, non-monopoly ISPs are doing, they can go elsewhere. I dislike the moralizing. This is business, not a battle of good vs evil. - Dan On 3/30/05 7:51 PM, "Eric A. Hall" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 3/30/2005 11:27 AM, Greg Boehnlein wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: >> >>> Intersting article on ISP issues regarding competitive >>> VoIP services: >>> >>> http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=71020 >> >> Hmm.. I was quoted in it. > > Oh good, maybe you can clarify some things: > > | �As much as I want to see VOIP survive and thrive, I also don't want > | to bear the additional cost of my customers choosing to use a > | competitor's VOIP service over my own,� says Greg Boehnlein, who > | operates Cleveland, Ohio-based ISP N2Net. > | > | �Without control of the last mile, we're screwed,� Boehnlein says, > | �which is why I can identify with Clearwire's decision and say > | �more power to them�.� > > Do you also block NNTP so that customers have to use your servers? > > And if some other service used higher cumulative bandwidth than VoIP (say, > Apple's music service) and didn't ~reimburse you for the use of your > network, would|do you block that service too? For that matter, do you > block the various P2P systems that don't make money but that generate > massive traffic? > > What don't you plan on blocking exactly?
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