7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
9:45 a.m.
If VOIP doesn't run on your network because you've oversold your capacity, no amount of QoS is going to put the quality back into your service. People will find better ISPs. If you deliberately set QoS to favor your services over a competitor, whom your customers are also paying for service, you'll be staring down prosecutors, at some point. It's anti-competitive behavior, as you're taking deliberate actions to degrade the service of a competitor, simply because you can.
Let's say I sell a premium VoIP offering for an additional fee on my network. I apply QoS to deliver my VoIP offering to my customers but as a result all other VoIP service is literally useless during heavy use times you'd consider this anti-competitive behavior? Adi