----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Pitcock" <neno...@systeminplace.net>
> That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. > National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans > now. I'm not convinced that many people use Vonage in the US - my > experience with it was that it was not as reliable as the VOIP > products offered through the various broadband providers I have had. Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a cable television provider, it is *not* "VoIP", in the usage in which most speakers mean that term -- "Voice Over Internet" is what they should be saying, and cable-phone isn't that; the voice traffic rides over a separate DOCSiS channel, protected from both the Internet and CATV traffic on the link. So of course Vonage and other VoN products will be less rugged. As I recall, this questionably fair competitive advantage has been looked into by ... someone. (Cablecos won't permit competing VoIP services to utilize this protected channel, somewhere between "generally" and "ever".) Cheers, -- jra
