RE: VoIP mangling

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > A patent application from German company Infineon reveals a
technology
for deliberately interfering with internet telephony transmissions -
or "voice over IP" (VoIP).

A friend of mine who is a telecom analyst says "All the big vendors had
stuff in their gear to selectively disable or degrade a competitor's
VoIP service. I was at an Alcatel consultant liaison conference where
some officer bragged how their box was a natural for telcos who wanted
to screw cable operators and independent VoIP providers. That was three
years ago. Infineon probably has a different way of doing it, hence
patentable. Their clients must be telcos who never, ever like
competition.
This will build toward an anti-trust case in a few years if the industry
has the guts to challenge these large companies."

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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