On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Folken wrote: [...]
Telcos hate (any form of) VoIP in userland. Telcos come from a place where they can monitor/bill exact usage. To them it sums up to lost revenues: [1][2]
Well.. they can still bill you for data usage...
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Another issue is that Skype causes traffic whilst not in use. Apperantly to some statistics posted in some forum I cannot remember: up to a gigabyte a month. So they could argue consumer protection.
That's certainly not the general case. I have Skype on my machines at home as well as at the office. For both connections I get traffic reports and my traffic hasn't changed much since I installed Skype. I thought that Skype selects random ports for the service, but in any case you can select the port yourself (which I had to do to make it work behind a NAT box).
The sad thing is that Swisscom has a complete &%*รง"&*/@% as speaker, who tells a newspaper that they do not offer UMTS services for voice, but only for data traffic. What does he think voice is?? Maybe the very little Mr. Voicy who carries his voice in a tiny suitcase through the cables.
- Felix