Post of The Year: Om on SBC's VoIP Dirty Bomb

About the only thing that was missing would have been in Om's post would be a reference to Pearl Harbor in describing SBC's move yesterday.

What I should say is Om's outstanding post. This is a must read. The guy is pure genius. Read it. Blog it. Share it with your friends.

Comments

[FormerBellboy]

here’s the hitch, though… SBC needs to play nice. Vonage does not provide broadband — in essence, SBC could do a lot better by playing nice and partnering up with these new networks. Every customer that gets hooked on VoIP still needs to stay with bell for the last mile DSL (in most cases). SBC’s playing a dangerous game pushing regulation like this, especially considering every aggressive move they make will hurt their chances of winning the big UNE-P battle. Vonage and the others are gaining more customers at a much faster rate than any of Bell’s previous competitors. If enough customers leave, SBCs termination fees will be useless to them. A final point, SBC moves VERY slowly. Their current VoIP strategy involves reselling Level3 with the HIPCS solution — it takes months to deploy, and per-seat fees are ridiculous.

[Tom Keating]

Go check my blog entry about this.

It did sound "scary" at first, which is why I titled it "SBC VoIP Tariff Scare".

I believe it's much adieu about nothing.