[Asterisk-Users] Voip in the EU

[Steve Underwood]

Iain Stevenson wrote:

>
> The problem with the Ofcom consultation as I see it is that it seems 
> to be regressive wrt to the position now being taken by the FCC.  
> There are probably not many more than 250,000 VoB users worldwide so 
> now is not the time to impose significant market constraints.

Why do you quote VoB, when the use of broadband versus other internet 
connections is totally arbitrary? The figure you quote seems far too low 
for voice over internet (rather than VoIP, since a lot of the IP is on 
private nets). I think you will find each of the major producers of 
VoIPs phone has produced rather more than that. Business users alone, 
dumping their PBXs, must accounts for millions of lines by now. Some of 
that traffic goes branch to branch over private nets, but they do a lot 
of interconnecting with the PSTN too.

Regards,
Steve