[Asterisk-biz] Press Release: StanaPhone is No Longer an Interconnected VoIP Provider?

[Christopher Bergström]

Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:

> As an offshore provider, mainly to the region but also have sold to US 
> based clients, I can't see how the FCC would be able to stop me 
> selling services to Americans without 911 services. I have no way to 
> know where they live and move to and no status to interface to any 
> existing E911 system. I can use a DNS entry  for my termination and 
> move it between companies and servers as I want. As a foreign internet 
> services company, as long as the customer knows they are buying from a 
> non-US company, how would they regulate me? Since I have no Bricks and 
> Mortar installation in the US and no license to operate, there's not 
> much there to regulate. In fact, by using REINVITE, I could terminate 
> offshore then reinvite to a US based server.
> The worst they could do is tell the server company to shut me down, 
> but with DNS, that would be a minor problem.
> I am not trying to get around regulation, but to illustrate how 
> impossible it is to regulate any packet based service.
>
For those a little more advanced and maybe concerned about them shutdown 
down an IP or server.. It's all about BGP.. Get a couple providers to 
announce your IP block and I'm sure that'll keep them wondering why you 
don't go down.  Add in some OSPF and you could maybe even increase the 
performance of your network.  If anyone is interested in how to pull 
this off feel free to send me an email off list.

Cheers,

C.