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" <majdi@puck.nether.net> 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