On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seems to me that said company "BroadVoice?" was attempting to prevent the > use of VoIP in an effort to prevent competition > with it's current phone customers. It's kind of a tough issue to deal > with, if you think about it.
Hold, BroadVoice is a VoIP service provider I work for, I was just saying I am speaking as Nathan, not as BroadVoice. > There are two sides to the issue: > > 1.) FCC doesn't want companies preventing other companies from competing. > 2.) On the other hand, how do you tell a company what services it can or > can't block? > > The fact is, the company was preventing it's users from using technology > offered by said company's competitors. No, they are just preventing companies that are using port X, most providers have figured out how to make VoIP work on any port. -Nathan