Mexico Vonage

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 17, 2005 Posts: 7

If mexico Telmex aka Carlos Slim can shut down Vonage and all other Voip via Internet, What will third world Countries do next? Why can Mexico connect to the USA via phone lines? Why can Mexico connect to the World Wide Web if it shuts down part of the Internet to maintain a monolopy for hight phone rate charges. There is RECOURSE! The civilized world could take punitative measures agnist this type of acitions. The FCC and the USA should not stand for this! They have the power to stop this practice. Now, Telmex is saying that they have done NOTHING! Where does truth start, why do we tolerate liers!

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 21, 2005 Posts: 11

I didn't know TELMEX was blocking access to Vonage's VoIP... where did you read this? Eek

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 08, 2005 Posts: 12

Of course it is all speculation at this point, but here:

http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic4133.html

Posts: 4

We have been in France for almost 9 months. It was working beautifully. then all of sudden no dial tone.

We did all the port settings, we contacted Vonage, they were unable to see us on line. Our wireless connection runs perfectly on our DSL through Wanadoo.
All we can think is that they have now blocked the ports. Has anyone else experienced this problems.?.? have you had any success getting the ports to work?

Welcome any info anyone can send us. We now use SKYPE until we figure this our. It has our phone number which we use for business.. Something is not right...
Thanks much...

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 17, 2005 Posts: 7

guscrown wrote,
I didn't know TELMEX was blocking access to Vonage's VoIP... where did you read this?

Yes its true, we have done some in depth testing, with Vonage Call Processing Engineer. The bottom line is blockage by the Internet server owned by Telmex. The deny this, of course. They started the blocking in La Paz , it then was added to many terminals in Baja and on the Mainland. I think they omitted blocking Mexico City as there are two other DSL providers using cable there and customers would just switch over. Interestingly enough, Telmex just released a new long distance service that costs about the same as Koala Calling call back. They offer 19 cents a minute but the plan costs up front 20 per month. Sounds good, but it is not. Seems like they are trying to gain long distance customers while blocking Voip. Telmex is trying to say Voip takes too much bandwidth to work, I have the 500 bandwidth service and it not bandwidth that is blocking Voip.

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dbajaer wrote:

I didn't know TELMEX was blocking access to Vonage's VoIP... where did you read this?

http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic4133.html
http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic4184.html
http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic4213.html

Posts: 17 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: Please Test this

Hi to all Vonage user in Mexico

I need to make some test from your city, i´m in hermosillo and i need you try to make a TRACEROUTE to vonage.com

All answer are going to 200.65.127.163 (dup-200-65-127-163.prodigy.net.mx) in my case.

Please post results

Cuauhtemoc

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 21, 2005 Posts: 11

1 2 ms 1 ms <1 ms 172.16.0.1
2 25 ms 27 ms 30 ms bastij3.telnor.net [201.130.144.1]
3 33 ms 27 ms 28 ms red-corp-200.76.250.36.telnor.net [200.76.250.36
]
4 33 ms 31 ms 33 ms sl-gw23-ana-3-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.142.165]

5 34 ms 54 ms 33 ms sl-bb20-ana-3-3.sprintlink.net [144.232.1.45]
6 160 ms 153 ms 157 ms sl-bb23-fw-10-2.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.241]

7 153 ms 153 ms 151 ms sl-bb21-fw-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.245]

8 226 ms 265 ms 234 ms sl-bb22-pen-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.30]
9 194 ms 190 ms 206 ms sl-bb27-pen-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.16.54]
10 196 ms 192 ms 198 ms sl-bb21-nyc-2-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.96]
11 225 ms 196 ms 190 ms sl-bb23-nyc-3-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.7.109]
12 197 ms 200 ms 198 ms sl-gw29-nyc-1-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.18]
13 196 ms 188 ms 224 ms sl-internap-125-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.37.166
]
14 101 ms 117 ms 100 ms border23.ge3-0-bbnet2.nyc.pnap.net [209.191.128.
156]

Posts: 23 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 23

dbajaer wrote:

guscrown wrote,
I didn't know TELMEX was blocking access to Vonage's VoIP... where did you read this?

Yes its true, we have done some in depth testing, with Vonage Call Processing Engineer. ......

Speaking about ISP's blocking VoIP..
Like a year ago, Telefonica, the not-so-loved spanish phone company that has presence here in south-america, rents it's phone network to some ISP's so they can sell their services to end users (through ADSL). Well, it has been proved that this company blocked SIP ports that are used with Voip services among it's network, so anyone connected to any ISP that goes through Telefonica's lines could not make and receive a single call. They had to take a notary (Notario in spanish) to verify the case and fill some legal stuff to get it unlocked.. They did it eventually..