[asterisk-users] Teliax Quality of Service

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Bosch
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:06 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Teliax Quality of Service
> 
> Brian Capouch wrote:
> > Stephen Bosch wrote:
> >
> >> PSTN service still sets the standard.
> >>
> >
> > With infrastructure paid for under a gracious guaranteed-profit
monopoly
> > by ratepayers,
> 
> In a regulated marketplace with legislated minimum service levels.
> 
> In Canada, most of the phone systems were government-owned. It was a
> good system, at least from the point of view of reliability. I don't
> miss the surly (and often slow) service, but it's arguable whether
> today's service -- in which everyone smiles nice and *pretends* to
serve
> you while ignoring you completely -- is any better. At least the
bloody
> stuff worked.
> 
> Communications infrastructure is a strategic, national asset, and only
> really useful if it goes everywhere, even to the unprofitable pockets
> like Podunk Corners, North Dakota. People forget this. In a totally
free
> marketplace, Podunk Corners waits years for service and gets tin cans
> and string when it finally arrives.

I disagree. There is more competition in smaller towns and rural areas.
It isn't cost effective for the bigger carriers to move in, so the small
ones do. They get state/federal subsidies. I'll bet you there's more
ISP's, and CLEC's per square inch in Montana than there is in the bay
area.