{"id":3445,"date":"2005-06-30T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/voip-blocking.html"},"modified":"2005-06-30T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T16:19:19","slug":"voip-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/voip-blocking.html","title":{"rendered":"VoIP Blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Interesting arguments Tom makes about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/supreme-court-ruling-results-in-voip-blocking.asp\">VoIP blocking<\/a> and how the liability is too great for anyone to do this in the future over cable. He could be right but I wonder if broadband providers aren\u2019t coming up with ways to offer levels of bandwidth and in effect making us pay to have the QoS needed to guarantee 911 and other calls will have acceptable quality. I get the feeling that in this way service providers could effectively tax VoIP service that is provided by others.<\/p>\n<p>Still this VoIP blocking issue isn\u2019t new and thankfully Forbes.com mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/articles\/2005\/voip-call-blocking-fcc-madison-river-vonage-buzz.htm\">Madison River consent decree<\/a> that forbids the blocking of VoIP and the fine in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2005\/06\/28\/voip-cable-blocked-cx_de_0628voip_print.html\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cable companies could block ports but as Tom says there is significant risk in doing so. I think Tom is probably right on this issue but I don\u2019t expect it to go away any time soon.<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting arguments Tom makes about VoIP blocking and how the liability is too great for anyone to do this in the future over cable. He could be right but I wonder if broadband providers aren\u2019t coming up with ways to offer levels of bandwidth and in effect making us pay to have the QoS needed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}