[Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

[Robert Goodyear]

On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:44 AM, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Mike Benoit wrote:
>
>> I'd be more then happy to pay 3-5cents/min to a company that has 
>> proven
>> reliable in both there quality of service and customer support. Just
>> because a company charges 3cents/min doesn't mean they are any better
>> then the 1cent/min company either.
> If you are using VoIP over the Internet, you can't demand nor expect
> guaranteed quality of service, period. Neither you nor your provider
> control all of the path between you.

But nowhere are we debating about connectivity. We're all smart enough 
to know about the slop in between and the inherent problems therein.

This is strictly about the termination and origination; the transition, 
which is the actual commodity that we're paying for.