Re: California Declares Free Market Broken, Recommends Price Controls For Phone Services

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
Date: August 16, 2008 12:01:52 PM EDT
To: "'Open Infrastructure Alliance'" <oia () lists bway net>
Subject: Re: [OIA] [IP] California Declares Free Market Broken,  
Recommends Price Controls For Phone Services

This bounced the first time I sent it to this list

That’s all we need – someone fixing the price of phone calls so that  
it doesn’t fall to the natural price of $0.00.

Why isn’t there rage directed at the very idea of having to pay a  
premium for some bits just because we treat those bits as far too  
special?

And where is the rage at practices such as suppressing the text for  
caller-ids and replacing it with some computed value? When I forward  
my ATT VoIP calls I notice different names based on each carriers’  
algorithm for guessing the CLID. Supposedly the carriers charge for  
providing the real information –I don’t have the option of passing my  
own identifier. This is something that affects us day in and day out  
when we try to decide whether to answer my phone! (Putting aside basic  
flaws in the concept of CLID based on the name in the billing record,  
spoofing etc) I would like to know more about the stated policies and  
implementation but they are not easy to find.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:18
To: ip
Subject: [IP] California Declares Free Market Broken, Recommends Price  
Controls For Phone Services

http://consumerist.com/5037810/california-declares-free-market-broken-recommends-price-controls-for-phone-services


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