Comments on: Vonage says broadband provider blocks its calls

A major broadband operator isn't letting Vonage calls through, and the VoIP provider wants an FCC investigation.

Vonage takes the Big Boiz to task

I am going to follow this one; the same thing happened when the ISPs began to offer high speed service. I used to work for an ISP that had telco employees issuing false cancellations, filing "Technically Not Feasible" reports, etc. It could have been incompetence, but on the other hand, it looked suspiciously like they were trying to keep all for themselves. Customers would call and say that the telco offered to have them "up and running" in a few days, while it took us months in the earlies. Now, it's much better. But the VOIP situation seems strangely familiar...

[Al Johnsons]

Technically Not Feasible

http://www.analogstereo.com/acura_cl_owners_manual.htm

[genethomas2095]

Incomplete story

Anita, great story yet it was incomplete on purpose.

Why did you deliberately leave out the name of the alleged offending ISP?

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RE: Incomplete story

I merely expressed my perception of what was going on. Read my entry again.

It was not ISPs that I was talking about, it was telco's that decided to create ISPs themselves, putting them in natural competition with ISPs who were leasing the telco's facilities to provide net connections of all types, particularly broadband, then an emerging technology.