The ISPs Are Revolting! More ISPs Blocking Non-Native VoIP
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Despite the FCC ruling that ISPs may not block VoIP, some ISPs are continuing to block VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services which do not originate with them.
According to reports, ClearWire, a Washington state ISP, is now blocking Vonage, basing the action on their terms of service which allow ClearWire to block the use of certain activities which result in “excessive consumption or utilization” of system or network resources.
Of course, ClearWire has itself just signed an agreement with Bell Canada to provide its own VoIP services, so this isn’t really about excessive use of bandwidth - it’s about use of bandwidth for the benefit of other VoIP providers. In other words…
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Randall
March 4th, 2007
at 9:23pm
My experience with clearwire has been a bad one. I am not getting anywhere close to the advertised bandwidth and in trying to bring the problems to their support team, there is no effort to get the problem solved, just excuses and no offer to refund since they haven’t delivered the service paid for. I even requested contact from an executive and got a run around by their service department on that too. I would not recommend them to an enemy even at this point! This account was given to me for a year by a friend to help me be able to show and sell my art on the Internet because I am disabled and the service works so lousy in trying to upload print files because they are throttling bandwidth on everyone. This is not how they represent their service to be!!!!
Randall