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Port Blocking: A Slippery Slope?

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

The CEO of Vonage has been arguing that port blocking of SIP traffic is censorship: Port blocking of VoIP traffic, he opined, is a step down a slippery slope that could lead to network owners blocking content or Web sites they disagreed with. Mr. Citron fails to notice that at least ...

Killing VoIP

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Cringely has an interesting column this month describing how incumbent carriers can kill VoIP without violating any laws: As the phone and cable companies begin offering their own VoIP services in real volume, they plan to "tag" their own VoIP packets so that at least within their own networks, their VoIP ...