[plug] VoIP

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 06:53, hooker at iinet.net.au wrote:
> Quoting Patrick Tehvand <patrick at tehvand.com>:
> > Timothy White wrote:
> > 
> > > It makes me wonder why the government doesn't start promoting VoIP and
> > > stop laying copper and start laying fibre or another nice cable and get
> > > people to use the Analog Telephone Adapters (ATA)
> > > 
> > 
> > Easy. Reliable emergency access (000) during internet outage.
> > Until that is cracked they cant do it.
> 
> Yup, ATM VOIP is a secondary service for just that reason.
> 
> Hook
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I'd like to add there is one negative impact of VOIP and that is the
sudden increase in telemarketing "spam" that we are all receiving as
call centre sweatshops with VOIP attempt to sell everything from fire
blankets to Optus home line/mobile/internet bundles to life insurance.

regards,

Chris