{"id":4577,"date":"2006-06-23T06:01:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/new-zealand-voip.html"},"modified":"2006-06-23T06:01:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T06:01:42","slug":"new-zealand-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/new-zealand-voip.html","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning.<\/p>\n<p>It is great to watch the press in other parts of the world <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumer.org.nz\/newsitem.asp?docid=2624&amp;category=News&amp;topic=ISPs%20able%20to%20slow%20down%20VoIP%20services\">wake up<\/a> to the realities of life &#8212; such as the ability of ISPs in New Zealand to block VoIP traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt:<br \/><em><br \/>New Zealand has no laws prohibiting ISPs from blocking or slowing down sites, and there&#8217;s no evidence they are or aren&#8217;t because currently there&#8217;s no way of telling. To maintain the integrity of the internet, we suggest regulations be introduced to ensure the neutrality of ISPs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the scariest point is that there is no way of telling if VoIP traffic is being degraded intentionally. This is something TMCnet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/columnists\/columnist.aspx?id=100044&amp;nm=Patrick%20Barnard\">Pat Barnard<\/a> has been writing about for many months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning. It is great to watch the press in other parts of the world wake up to the realities of life &#8212; such as the ability of ISPs in New Zealand to block VoIP traffic. Here is an excerpt:New Zealand has no laws prohibiting ISPs from blocking or slowing down sites, and there&#8217;s no<\/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\/4577"}],"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=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}