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From: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
On 12/05/2015 05:05 PM, Erik Flournoy wrote:
If a packet transverses your entire network as a packet then it's never a toll charge. It's a packet.
Well, right. :-) No provider of voice networks wants value-added services to go away and be replaced by OTT applications for whom they're just a low-margin, flat-rate, 95% percentile-billed transport layer.
To a point, you can understand where they're coming from. They do the hard, capital-intensive work of building out the network, while some clever mobile app out of Silicon Valley pockets all the profits. That wasn't the assumption from which they built anything.
And my heart bleeds for them. But so has my wallet, for decades; they've gotten their ROI. And no company is guaranteed the right to continue to make a living, by the law, in whatever field it is currently engaged in. Didn't a Supreme Court Justice say that in an opinion? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274