--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> 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
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:03:11PM -0000, Neil J. McRae wrote: 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/