Telecom Operators vs. VoIP Services
There was a really interesting post by Robert Poe on VoIP News the other day. I flagged it in my RSS reader because I wanted to go back and read it more thoroughly. This is well worth reading for telecom and VoIP service providers.
As telecom operators add their own VoIP services, they may block competitors' VoIP to protect their own.
Voice over IP is clearly a revolutionary technology. It has the power to topple traditional technical, business, and regulatory models. Having the power and using it, though, are two different things. VoIP could just as easily become a tool of entrenched telcos, part of the status quo they're trying to protect rather than the competitive turmoil they're trying to prevent.Which way it will go remains an open question. But the front line in this epic struggle between the established and the disruptive for control of a rapidly evolving technology will be efforts by telcos and other well-funded VoIP providers to block competitors' VoIP on their networks. It's a technically tricky and politically delicate task rife with contradiction.
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