Numbering

It looks like the numbering is the only real issue of all the VoIP market.

It looks like nobody sees the real point, at least for what concerns the Mass Market.
They are building every day new Networks, of course proprietary stuff, like the Telecoms' business model, where you have to pay to get in or out.


And of course internal P2P are welcome.(as long as they are sure you will need to go in and out.)

The main difference is that the old business model (the Telcos') had a meaning and a justification.
They owned the infrastructure and with the ins and outs you paid for the leasing of the line.

VoIp is totally a different Scenario.
Finally we have a "customer's owned infrastructures" or at least leased directly by the user.
So why SHOULD the USER belong to a private NETWORK to do call that he can better do in HIS OWNED Network ( The Internet)

The only issue is directing them.
That is all what is required by a Provider.

Everybody owns a computer, everybody can buy an IP phone or a softphone, everybody PAYS for his access to the Internet.
Why should we be so stupid?

OK you can talk about the VoIP-PSTN connection.

But there are out there so many "terminators" you can choose among good services, bad services, no services, but you are not obliged to buy the Termination from a VoIP provider.

I tell you what we risk with this stupid behaviour.
One day the Telcos will feel treatened and will do just that: offer VoIP on THEIR Network and interconnectivity with the other Telcos.
In five minutes they will have the biggest VoIP Network ever seen and we will all agree that in the end, it is much simpler...

But we all will have lost a chance to have done a revolution when the oppurtunity was there.
You win a battle if you are able to take the enemy by surprise, oterwise if you have good chances to loose...forget it...

Patrizia