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Vonage OK. Fair enough. Instead of modification they use lockdowns and heavy encryption.
OK. Fair enough. Instead of modification they use lockdowns and heavy encryption. Works out to the same effect - to keep things simple (aka. to keep their target audience from screwing up the adapters) they lock them down.
I completely do not understand that point of view. If you don't like the way Vonage does business, then I can see not doing business with them. But first you talk of court cases, and now you say you'd take pleasure in their demise?
Well, I guess your question has been answered - Vonage does not allow manual provisioning because they have made a business decision to do so. The reason for that business decision is either security or simplicity or a combination of both, but regardless - since Vonage is a private company the reasoning behind their business decisions is none of our business, even as customers. They may disclose what they choose.
There's no law that says they have to sell you unlocked equipment or allow same to be used on their network. Vonage is not a regulated monopoly. They are a private competitive company. Their regulation is the free market - if their decisions end up being harmful ones, the market will punish them. 1,000,000 lines and growing say their decision is not an exceptionally bad one.
All their devices are locked to them, and you are welcome to purchase one and unlock it and use it with another SIP provider that welcomes unlocked devices, but it will not be useable on the Vonage network any more. Eventually, I may do that with my WRTP54G, but so far Vonage hasn't done too badly by me.
Read The Full Thread: Why am I not allowed to manually provision?
• Really, WHY EXACTLY won't vonage let me provision my own VOIP equipment? Why is
• I can tell, but this will be my only post on the topic because I do not debate issues
• Customer Support - By limiting the customer base to a small set of hardware and
• WHY!!! WHY!!!
You people tell me WHY I can't be 8 feet tall! WHY?
I don't
• WHY can I not stop using the throne tonight after 7 glasses of apple juice?!?! :roll:
• scerruti,
You're wrong. What "unauthorized device" would cause harm to
• Then go fight in court and leave our board alone. We help fix people's Vonage, not
• Correct. But Vonage doesn't state that you cannot unlock your device. They merely
• Then go to court. You sound like a very immature person. If you are so content in
• Everything they use is standard. Nothing is changed, nothing is modified. The
NateHoy posted "OK. Fair enough. Instead of modification they use lockdowns and heavy encryption." on 01/15/2006 |
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