OT: internet phones

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:47:44PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> thing, and neither will Vonage.  It'll be buried deep in some backbone
> carrier's innards where the only Responsible Party is someone that doesn't
> know you from a hole in the ground, and frankly couldn't care less about
> even a few thousand VOIP customers that aren't their direct customers.
> They only have to contend with their direct peering partners, and the
> amount of pressure one peer can exert upon another is negligible short of
> something like the Level 3/Cogent debacle--in which case -everyone- loses.

If you can't get a backbone to take a router outage report from you
even though you're not a direct client, you're not a good enough social
engineer.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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