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Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy?

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy?
Date 2015-07-30 20:33 +1000
Message-ID <d1ucspFs9nfU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>> Kees Nuyt wrote
>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote

>>>>> It is true in the sense that many providers here in Germany actually 
>>>>> have a paragraph stating that VOIP is not supported.

>>>> "Not supported" does not mean "forbidden".

>>> Nope, they mean it in the sense of 'forbidden'.

>> BULLSHIT. Skype works fine.

> Did I say anything different?

Everyone can see that you did, fuckwit.

> *You* don't understand the difference between something being being 
> forbidden by the terms of the service

Skype isn't.

> (which is only a legal matter),

Wrong, as always.

> and blocking something so that a customer can't use it

Skype ain't either.

> (which is a technical matter).

Wrong, as always.

> As I already stated days ago, a number of German providers have (had?) 
> terms that forbid the usage of VoIP connections on their mobile networks

BULLSHIT.

> - but I have to see a provider actually enforcing this regulation by 
> blocking such services (like Skype).

Because they aren't allowed to forbid VOIP, fuckwit.

>>>> They just want to warn you that their helpdesk will not help you
>>>> solve any problems with VOIP. You are on your own - but of course
>>>> there are webfora and possibly newsgroups with enthousiasts that will
>>>> try to help people with VOIP setup questions.

>>> That is yet another point, but not the one they want to address with 
>>> that paragraph.

>> Wrong on that last. VOIP is not forbidden. Skype works fine.

> Read up about the difference between 'forbidden' and 'blocked'.

Don’t need to.

>>>>> However, as of now I have not really heard that they actually
>>>>> enforce this - which in turn shows that this is not really
>>>>> used all that much as of now. Might change, though...

>>>> Low-cost VOIP is quite common in Europe for the tech savvy crowd.

>>> Which is still a (comparably small) subset of the overall crowd... ;-)

>> Bullshit with Skype alone.

> You've got no idea about the usage of Skype in Germany.

Wrong, as always.

> And I'm not talking about the number of customers, but the number of 
> minutes actually used - just to be precise.

You don’t either, no one does.

>>>> The average consumer will only use VOIP if their ISP includes and
>>>> supports it in the package - usually triple play: Internet / Phone /
>>>> TV, either over phone or cable-TV infrastructure. They don't know
>>>> it's VOIP though ;)

>>> Here in Germany all landline providers (mostly it's the former
>>> monopolist T-Com, but as well cable companies, Vodafone, and a few local 
>>> ones) either always sold VoIP telephone lines, or currently in the 
>>> process of converting all their landlines to VoIP (to be concluded by 
>>> 2018).

>> Separate matter entirely to what is being discussed.

> As if you cared...

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

>>> However, this is done in a way that the usual consumer won't see much
>>> of a difference (except for perhaps slightly worse service grades).

>> It can be significantly better.

> Yepp, it can be. Unfortunately, as of now the service grade is not, it's 
> worse.

Wrong, as always.

> I'm on such a service and I (and many colleagues) see much more outages 
> than we ever had using POTS.

That isn't with the landlines converted to VOIP internally.

> And since we (most of us at least) are still using classical phones (and 
> not IP phones), the advantages like better voice transmission (due to 
> higher bandwidth) don't really show up.

Even more pig ignorant than you usually manage. 

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Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy? Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2015-07-22 10:17 +0200
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                Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy? Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2015-07-27 10:06 +0200
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      Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-07-24 18:11 +0000
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        Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 20:43 +1000
      Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy? Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2015-07-28 09:50 +0200
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