[AusNOG] M2 buy Primus

[Rod Veith]

Quote "In the end, PSTN will be a discovery service so carriers can
reasonably charge for registration and a directory lookup (aka
flagfall) but since you and I will pay for the traffic, all per-minute
charges will be nothing less than gouging."

This view is too simplistic and has no appreciation of the perceived and
real value of services being provided by the NBN bandwidth. Why should a
phone call and a viewing of a youtube video have the same intrinsic value
just because they both used 9.435 MB of data? NBN is more than just moving
bits around at a faster speed. The utility of a service is determined by
what it can do, and the NBN can do many many things, some we have not yet
even considered, and they should be priced differently.

Rod
 
-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Delany
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012 3:02 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] M2 buy Primus

On 16Apr12, Jake Anderson allegedly wrote:

> Separating voice calls for your "carrier" is going to be too much for 
> most to handle, and barring some sort of govt lead service a PSTN 
> phone number will be required for most people to make voice

I think you are right about carriers wishing to "manage perceptions"
so that folk will still see some value in buying a "PSTN" service in an NBN
world, but

> calls, not everybody has or wants skype/other private option.

This is a pretty artifical distinction isn't it? Won't all calls be carried
by the same technology?

> So should the govt/NBNco provide some kind of broker service?
> Essentially providing a pathway to make all NBN > NBN voice calls free 
> and providing a "simple" method for number portability.

If carriers try to charge for VOIP bits they don't need to carry, then yes.

In the end, PSTN will be a discovery service so carriers can reasonably
charge for registration and a directory lookup (aka
flagfall) but since you and I will pay for the traffic, all per-minute
charges will be nothing less than gouging.


Mark.
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