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Pricing Comparison, was: Vonage's Citron Says VoIP...

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:52:24 UTC

In <telecom24.97.14@telecom-digest.org> joel@exc.com (Dr. Joel
M. Hoffman) writes:

> In the end, the only reason VoIP is so cheap is that it passes the
> costs off to other sectors.

Or, to put the shoe on the other foot:

In the middle, a key reason that VOIP is so cheap is that huge amounts
of secondary fees, taxes, and contributions (many of which do, in
fact, get kicked over to other parts of the legacy telcos and other
powerful beneficiaries) have been added to the traditional phone bill,
raising it way above the base cost. As of now at least, very few of
these have hit the VOIP product line.

Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Yeah, and can you imagine there are
folks who want to place the blame on VOIP because it is so
inexpensive; they seem to feel all those taxes and fees the landline
telcos pay are justified. Why they want to blame VOIP instead of
placing the blame of the government, squarely where it belongs, is
anyone's guess. PAT]

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