[Asterisk-Users] Voip in the EU

[Iain Stevenson]

I stuck with this line of argument mainly because the current Ofcom 
consultation concerns secondary line VoIP.  So the customer base is mainly 
users of Vonage etc.  There are, of course many more users of telephony 
over IP.

  Iain


--On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:42 am +0800 Steve Underwood 
<steveu at coppice.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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