[Users] Re: [Serusers] voip charging by ISP's

Hello Interesting thought, but I dont see why there would be a need or even a wish to charge once for the Internet access with an agreed Speed or data transfer limit, and then again for the type of traffic unless that specific traffic is treated differently in the ISP network, as wth higher CoS. Why else would they care what kind of traffic you are running on your connection as long it is kept within the agreed speed/data transfer limit? But giving voip traffic different CoS over the providers network as a differentiator to enable voice traffic billing does not seem logical unless all providers on Internet do the same, and map the CoS between the providers at peering points. I do not see how the VoIP providers would ever accept such an approach from any ISP. IP traffic is IP Traffic! You pay for the amount of traffic you send and receive. More traffic equals higher revenue for the ISP, no need to charge traffic differently just because the traffic happens to be VoIP and the ISP has its roots in Telecom industry. I believe that the natural development of this would be that most of the ISPs also start to offer the VoIP services. It make a lot more sense to use the ISP as the VoIP provider than any remote provider, since that will increase performance, reliability and make the whole 911 issue and technical troubleshooting a lot easier. I strongly believe that the ISPs at all levels will most likely replace the old PTTs over the next 5-10 years. And in the case of PTTs also being an ISP, lucky them. I think, Companies like Vonage probably will be outrun by ISPs providing VoIP in the long run, but they will stay behind as alternate providers or as gateways to the old pstn networks. Regards Roger -----Original Message----- From: Iqbal <iqbal(a)gigo.co.uk> To: "serusers(a)iptel.org" <serusers(a)iptel.org> Cc: "users openser.org" <users(a)openser.org> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:54:35 +0000 Subject: [Serusers] voip charging by ISP's .