Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would
there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?
So to make this somewhat on-topic, what will the advance of VOIP do to SLA
requirements? Would this be allowed to happen if customers were using an IP
provider for access into their VOIP gateway? IP phone at home, VOIP gateway
and "Normal" trunks at the exchange point kind of thing.
James H. Smith II NNCDS NNCSE
Systems Engineer
The Presidio Corporation
So to make this somewhat on-topic, what will the advance of VOIP do to SLA
requirements? Would this be allowed to happen if customers were using an IP
provider for access into their VOIP gateway? IP phone at home, VOIP gateway
and "Normal" trunks at the exchange point kind of thing.
Especially if those VoIP services were providing 911 services to large
residential communities...
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
The FCC Chairman Michael Powell did write to the Judge overseeing
the bankruptcy proceedings.
If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would
there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?
The Judge said only if "public health or safety" would be affected.
A hospital or similar type of customer could come forward, and request
the judge re-consider because a shutdown would affect some critical
public health of safety function. But I think that is unlikely in
this case.
If someone turns off your cable modem, are you unable to access
the "information superhighway"? I doubt people pitched their modems
in the physical sense.
"Separately, Powell said the FCC would soon launch a notice of proposed
rulemaking to examine the state of broadband with the goal of ending the
government's practice of ``lurching and reacting'' to advances in the
high-speed Internet access industry."
Some hints that FCC may want to regulate in the case of
bankruptcy providers of [internet] broadband services. This would
possibly help as far as having people be required to get
sufficent warning that their service is going to be terminated
(such as 90+ days for those that don't pay attention to these things)
and provide in this case companys like at&t bb, charter, comcast,
cox, mediaone, and any other provider still (be it partially or in whole)
using @home for their overall transit to arrange for a new
provider of internet connectivity. (as well as the home user to
persue other services and have a good way to get out of their contracts
possibly [if they are not month-to-month]).
