Emailing and VoIP

"btw email vs. VoIP:

The battle of the PSTN mindset vs. the VoIP mindset reminds me a lot of the battle between the X.400 and the SMTP email standard of the late 80's. There is a lot to be learned from that one."


This is partially incorrect.
The comparison should be email against snail mail.

But there was and there is no fight.
It would be the same if the Telephone Voice business would be in the hands of the Government.
That is if they feared to loose revenues from emailing.
This is not the case.
On the contrary the Mail system's employees welcome emailing since it means less traffic and instead of meaning less revenues, it just means less work to do.
Let's imagine a scenario in which the Telecom's were in the hands of our government and the service didn't bring revenues, but mostly losses.
A service which should be paid by the tax payers independently from the fact that it works or not.

Well in this case, VoIP would be very much welcome!

Patrizia