On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:51:08PM -0500, Frank Coluccio wrote:

I commented independently concerning the same issue just a little while ago, at:

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21457409

re:

"The question may now become if consumer can order Vonage, 8x8, ... VoIP service, riding the cable Internet service."

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Agreed, that is a major question. There is nothing that binds the MSOs to continue carrying the parasitic services you cited except for good will,

Parasitic services? Good will? I believe, Frank, that you and $LOTS_OF_CUSTOMERS_INCLUDING_ME have differing views of what service it is, exactly that broadband customers (think) we're paying for. While few of the consumer broadband providers explicitly say "unfiltered routeable IP access to 'the Internet'", *none* of them say "access to websites and we don't guarantee anything else"... at least not in letters tall enough to make the FTC happy. Oh... did I imply that broadband carriers might trigger a wash of consumer complaints to the FTC if they started blocking service the customers wanted to use without clear advance notice? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me