Igor Hernandez wrote: > Ouch. The operational cost of voip providers in Europe must be pretty > high compared to ours.
As regards the sort of physical plant we've been discussing, yes. In other respects, no. European telcos and broadband providers aren't busy trying to actively prevent FTTH / FTTP residential and business broadband from happening because they want to artificially prop up the cost of 1 Mbps of bandwidth so they don't have to build any new network, as American telcos and cable MSOs are doing. Also, some parts of Europe (like the UK) are heaven for their equivalent of the deregulated competitive carrier (CLEC), which the US very much is not at the moment and hasn't really been since this administration and its FCC appointees showed up. The point is that these things decrease costs in some other areas where they would be considerably higher in the US. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
