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Vonage UPDATE 04-07-05
Clearwire Was One Of Two Broadband Providers Causing Problems
UPDATE 04-07-05
Clearwire Was One Of Two Broadband Providers Causing Problems For Vonage
Wireless Operator Clearwire Was One Of Two Broadband Providers Causing Recent Problems, Now Resolved, For Internet Phone Operator Vonage's Traffic, A Vonage Spokeswoman Said Wednesday
April 6, 2005
By Ben Charny
Vonage also said last month that a cable operator, along with Clearwire, was suspected of blocking calls and not letting some home-phone adapters work appropriately. The cable operator's identity and the exact cause of the problems were still shrouded in mystery Wednesday.
A Clearwire spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Blocked calls by design or technical error are becoming more commonplace for Vonage and other voice over Internet Protocol, or Voip, telephone operators. The usual suspects are broadband providers, which view Voip providers as unwanted hitchhikers on their networks. Because Voip software lets any Internet connection double as an inexpensive phone line, Vonage and other "networkless" operators need only require subscribers to supply a broadband connection on their own.
Clearwire was created by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw. It's a small provider of WiMax wireless broadband service, and it operates in St. Cloud, Minn.; Abilene, Texas; and Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Fla. WiMax is an experimental technology that promises to broadcast broadband at a radius of several miles.
The Vonage complaints in March were levied less than three weeks after a Mebane, N.C., telecommunications provider, Madison River Communications, said it would "refrain from blocking" voice over Internet Protocol calls and pay a $15,000 fine to the government. Vonage, a Voip provider, brought Madison River to the Federal Communications Commission's attention and may do the same with providers involved in these latest problems.
The FCC had hoped the Madison River enforcement would help eradicate what's commonly referred to as "port blocking," a way of blocking traffic-one that telecommunications providers threatened by Voip are turning to with increasing frequency. The FCC did not comment on Monday about the impact of the fine or about the Vonage complaints.
Read The Full Thread: ALERT: ISP Blocking VoIP Ports Again: UPDATED 04-25-05
• Who are "they"?
Please post your ISP in your signature.
• Telmex is definitely playing games with voip, not limited to vonage. Other voip
• Yes!! Prodigy/Telmex is selectively disrupting voip communications. I say
• We are hearing reports again of another unnamed ISP thats is intentionally blocking
• Just testing my signature. :P
• Was Comcast one of the early offenders? I'll be having them when I move in April...
• Our service provider is Infinitum from Telmex. Our Vonage does not work and we
• My service still works. Posting with my Sig info.
• My is working correctly with Comcast in Michigan.
• prodigy.net from mexico
i started having problems this monday at 7 pm
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Clearwire Was One Of Two Broadband Providers Causing Problems" on 04/07/2005 |
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