[Asterisk-Users] Will VoIP ITSP's be Next?

[Bob's Leaky News Service]

Will VoIP be Next?

Telco's that provide Internet services to their customers are now
trying to charge select companies for large volumes of content that
pass over their network to their paying customers! What part of this
"greed fest' makes any sense to you? Telco's sell DSL telling
customers how much faster it is, how much they can do with Highspeed
Internet connections and now they want to charge non-customers for the
right to see their paying customers. CONFUSED? Damn so am I. Telco's
pay nothing for Internet connections as they get their traffic from
what are called peering agreements. Say I have a bunch of customers
and you have a bunch of customers...Then it is in our best interest to
peer so our customers can communicate with each other. This is done
99% of the time at NO COST to company A or company B. Now companies
like Verizon are demanding companies like Google pay them stating that
bandwidth intensive content is being passed over their networks and
they should be compensated. Ok so you flip to the other side and the
Verizon DSL customer has been sold on the fact services like Google,
Yahoo and many many smaller just plain super Internet goodies are now
going to travel into their computers at highspeed. Why the double
standard? GREED. That is it just plain old fashion GREED. The past few
years have not been good for Telco's. Cable companies are able to
offer better service and are now entering the phone markets as well.
Hey call me stupid but can we see where this is going? From the How Do
I Get More Profit Department Mr. Telco is at it again. The customer is
paying for access to a river of sorts. That river is called the Global
Internet. The Telco decided to enter that market. The Telco decided to
agree to PEER and accept traffic from other Global Internet providers.
The Telco decided to spend millions telling customers BUY OUR
HIGHSPEED DSL service so they could access bandwidth intensive content
like music, TV, large files and more. Huge marketing plans are in
action daily. So what have these customers really bought? Good
question. Maybe it is time for a Telco customer to get an Internet
savvy lawyer or two and sue the hell out of these companies that are
trying to restrain competition, block free trade and maybe just maybe
even eliminate services their customers count on to run their daily
business.

To the TELCO I say "Folks pull your heads out of your collective
asses" or your going to fail at this worse then you have failed at
DSL. Stick with your core business and stop trying to profit off the
inventions of others. Most of all stop trying to restrain trade. If
you fail to hear the phone ring it is going to cost your shareholders
a huge pile of cash one day very soon.

PS: The Internet is a place where new ideas come and go by the minute.
If this sort of stupid nonsense is allowed to start it will never end.
What has become a world without borders, the connected will fast
become the disconnected. Mr. Telco the Internet happened while all of
you were asleep at the "switch" so wipe that evil smile off your
faces. To me Telcos are nothing more than OED's ( One Eyed Droids )