Big Telecom lobbying has been busy. Bashing upstarts like Vonage, trying to force small outfits carrying a message or voice snippet to be subject to "lawful intercept", and of course preventing cities from providing free WiFi to its citizens.
I always find the parallels between telecom today and railways in the 50's interesting. I'm sure the railways hired lobbyists to try to prevent the interstate highway system from being built. In the end it was far too useful and important to US national security to not be built. Who knows where telecom will end up... Andrew Kooiman -----Original Message----- From: Michael Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:12 PM To: Bjorn Asmul Cc: Toronto Asterisk UG Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] VoIP PBX General Queries -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "Bjorn" == Bjorn Asmul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bjorn> THIS is one of the reasons why 911 got a big issue in North America: Bjorn> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120141,00.asp Yeah, but you missed the point. Who do you think whispered in the DA's ear? - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Finger me for keys iQCVAwUBQ0/m4oqHRg3pndX9AQHEhAP/ZTJAt88wRPARfkxS+OBSI7LPAtjdclDo 6NiK9zQRtAbJaFomfw56iy+zcWhemwAccJgDbYbtCTRVCwjAm4igXfAvv8qpuYqX Mj/a+w7BXBmXwI89ZMUu7dItiafQ5U/7Yh4qrqCmHAd9XQ3M6Eyh24Ir1FEoAnhD xLIKdqx9g5k= =UVEf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
