Comments on: Corrupting Influences on VoIP http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14 Voxilla's Commentary Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:40:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: sjsobol http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-91 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:55:23 +0000 http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-91 Um, make that "56K dialups and analog voice calls over copper." Um, make that “56K dialups and analog voice calls over copper.”

]]> by: sjsobol http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-90 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:54:41 +0000 http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-90 Corruption and anti-competitive behavior exists in US telecomm today and has for many years. I see anti-competitive behavior by the big guys any time a new technology comes out. I still see ILECs attempting to screw over their resellers on stuff like DSL where the ILEC has to be involved if you don't want to spend millions on infrastructure... but it's prevalent in other areas too. The ILECs would all have us using 56K dialups over copper, forever, if they had their way. Corruption and anti-competitive behavior exists in US telecomm today and has for many years. I see anti-competitive behavior by the big guys any time a new technology comes out. I still see ILECs attempting to screw over their resellers on stuff like DSL where the ILEC has to be involved if you don’t want to spend millions on infrastructure… but it’s prevalent in other areas too.

The ILECs would all have us using 56K dialups over copper, forever, if they had their way.

]]> by: lonnie http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-5 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:02:03 +0000 http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-5 With all due respect, "just getting used to" a situation here in America that we are willing to call "corruption" when it occurs in another country -- especially a "Third-World country" -- is precisely what we ought not be doing. Rich, you should recall the disgust you "used to feel" and use that to help lead the charge against corruption right here at home. Otherwise, at least as it applies to the development of the IP communications industry, only those who are willing (or able) to "donate" to the maintenance of our political system will have a voice in guiding it. With all due respect, “just getting used to” a situation here in America that we are willing to call “corruption” when it occurs in another country — especially a “Third-World country” — is precisely what we ought not be doing.

Rich, you should recall the disgust you “used to feel” and use that to help lead the charge against corruption right here at home. Otherwise, at least as it applies to the development of the IP communications industry, only those who are willing (or able) to “donate” to the maintenance of our political system will have a voice in guiding it.

]]> by: rtehrani http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-4 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:59:06 +0000 http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2006/09/24/corrupting-influences-on-voip-14#comment-4 Marcelo Rodriguez has some very interesting <a href="http://voxilla.com/soapvox/marcelo-rodriguez/corrupting-influences-on-voip-820.html">commentary</a> over at <a href="http://voxilla.com/">Voxilla</a>. He observes a great deal of behavior in the US that smells of corruption. This is in response to a blog post that Russell Shaw posted and I picked up on. Russell spent most of his blog post talking about the attack on VoIP in third world countries. Marcelo really seems to be upset when he discusses the situation in the US. To be clear, our political system is more or less designed in a way that politicians are encouraged to take money from corporations via loopholes and any legal means. In response organizations that donate get to influence our political system. Perhaps the word "designed" is too strong but this is essentially what happens. This is how democracy works in the US. It used to disgust me actually but this is just how things work and we just need to get used to it. <a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/voip/marcelo-rodriguez-on-corruption.html">Continued</a> Marcelo Rodriguez has some very interesting commentary over at Voxilla. He observes a great deal of behavior in the US that smells of corruption. This is in response to a blog post that Russell Shaw posted and I picked up on. Russell spent most of his blog post talking about the attack on VoIP in third world countries. Marcelo really seems to be upset when he discusses the situation in the US.

To be clear, our political system is more or less designed in a way that politicians are encouraged to take money from corporations via loopholes and any legal means. In response organizations that donate get to influence our political system. Perhaps the word “designed” is too strong but this is essentially what happens.

This is how democracy works in the US. It used to disgust me actually but this is just how things work and we just need to get used to it.

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