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Pronounced "dudes." Immature scofflaws. See wareZ
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dOoDz - John Levine wrote: Without an unfettered supply of phone numbers from NANPA, SBC IP argues, it and other carriers' rollouts of Net phone service will be hampered. Employees of Vonage, VoicePulse and other VoIP services would laugh at that. SBC continues as the absolute lamest telecom company in existence. Oh, you just don't understand. The RBOCs have always had a sooper-sekrit agreement that they won't invade each other's territories.Well, if it's between *them*, I fail to see how whining to the governmentwill do any good at all. And I remain skeptical of SBC's claim. For example, a few years back they were all complaining that the wholesale rates for CLECs that wanted to resell local phone service were so low that they were below cost. So someone asked the obvious question: If they're that low, why aren't you making big buck$ reselling each other's services, since you just told us that would be more profitable than selling your own? The only answer was a fairly sniffy "we don't do that."Is it because they really have that agreement, or because it was easier totell the Feds that they don't do that? They sure don't want to buy service through existing CLECs as Vonage et al do, since those are the very same CLECs they've been shafting for the past decade or two who would be unlikely to pass up an opportunity to turn the tables.I have little sympathy. As far as I'm concerned ... well, I've not hadany trouble with Verizon to date, but SBC is run by a bunch ofcriminals. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Was anyone else as amused as I was by hearing SBC referred to in the header as a 'VOIP Firm'? So now that they have called the shots for so many years, all of a sudden they want to be known as an underdog? Poor, pitiful, put upon SBC! PAT]Exactly!!JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.netPGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED)Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids.[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The absolutely worst thing that everhappened to Illinois Bell Telephone Company was when SBC bought themout. PAT]
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