Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems     by Manlio Allegra       Home         Topics: Main | VoIP | Wireless | Undersea Cables | Security | IPTV | MSOs | CDNs  | Ethernet | Mergers  | Financials  | People  | Europe | Canada | China | Japan | Korea | India | Latin America | Archive   Nuvio Sees Potential Discriminatory Practices in Broadband VoIP Nuvio, a provider of business and residential broadband VoIP services, filed an ex-parte letter with the FCC to combat what it sees as "potential discriminatory practices by broadband Internet access providers." Nuvio is seeking government regulation to preserve competition in the VoIP market by preventing "any discriminatory against unaffiliated VoIP providers in favor of affiliated providers." Nuvio, which is based in Kansas City, is especially concerned that rural ILECs will use discriminatory practices to artificially keep VoIP competition from reaching rural customers. Nuvio is urging the FCC to exercise its Title I jurisdiction to prohibit discriminatory practices of vertically integrated broadband/VoIP providers. "Broadband providers have nothing to lose and everything to gain from degrading the connection quality of their customers who are using unaffiliated VoIP providers," said Jason Talley, president and CEO of Nuvio Corporation. "The few customers they lose from discrimination is drastically offset by the substantial increase in its VoIP subscribers, market share and revenues from the practice. http://www.nuvio.com 14-Sep-04     No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Service Provider News Verizon Business Extends Cloud Services with VMware 8/31/2010 SingTel Launches Services over NGNBN Fibre 8/31/2010 Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network Launches 8/31/2010 Clearwire Offers Pay-As-You-Go Mobile Broadband, $5/Day 8/30/2010 SK Telecom Selects ALU's MPLS-TP Packet Optical Backhaul 8/27/2010 Taiwan's Chunghwa Sees Further FTTx Substitution for ADSL 8/26/2010 Qwest Introduces Cloud-based Recovery Service 8/26/2010 FiberTech Networks Sold to Investor Group for $500 Million 8/26/2010 eircom Wholesale Launches Carrier Ethernet Across Ireland 8/26/2010 Kenya's Safaricom Deploys NSN's Subscriber Data Platform 8/25/2010 IBM Warns that Security Vulnerabilities Reach Record Levels 8/25/2010 Google Enables Phone Calling from Gmail 8/25/2010 China Telecom to Accelerate FTTH and Mobile Rollouts 8/25/2010 AT&T Adds VoIP Service to Enterprise VPN Service 8/24/2010 China Mobile Tops 554 Million Customers 8/19/2010 > More news...     Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton