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February 14, 2005
A Valentine for Vonage? Some Take Vonage to Heart; Others Clog the Arteries
Earlier this morning, Paul Kapustka emailed me about a story he posted that Vonage has complained to the FCC that competing service providers are "blocking" its Voice over IP service.
This news does not surprise me.
It appears that there is evidence that some controllers of bottleneck's might be choking the consumer's access to the Internet and stifling the consumer's ability to control their own communications experience. This is, at least of violation of Chairman Powell's conception of Net Freedom.
As I've suggested before, it would be a powerful statement if Chairman Powell were to memorialize his conception of Net Freedom before he steps down from the FCC and were to state once and for all that an entity's interference with a consumer's Net Freedom will not be tolerated. His eloquent words in support of Net Freedom will be empty rhetoric unless government takes the violators to task.
Long live the Net Freedoms!
Posted by jeff on February 14, 2005 10:49 AM | Permalink
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