Skype Handset

[Claude Jones]

On Wednesday July 05 2006 9:06 am, Craig White wrote:
> > Verizon had a clause in my recent DSL contract which stipulated that if I
> > used the line for telephony, they could cease offering the service - I
> > did NOT read the clause closely, and it may have been a clause for my
> > dial-tone only service rather than my DSL, but, in any event, this
> > discussion makes me want to dig that up and read it again. I've only
> > recently started using Skype, and I've had no problems so far. Again, I
> > didn't read the fine print, and I just remember seeing that clause at the
> > time, and it raising my dander up a bit with a "how can they do that?" -
> > for all I know, it may have had something to do with setting up an
> > independent for profit phone service in competition with their phone
> > offerings, using their DSL circuits, or something like that...
>
> ----
> that restriction may be there just in case their lobbying efforts to
> rescind 'net neutrality' provisions succeed. Setting up a business model
> on non-QOS bandwidth seems to be very ill-fated.
>

Yes, I would guess you're right. As I said, I didn't read the clause carefully 
because it was not something I was concerned with at the time. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA