http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/05/31/is-shaw-packet-preferencing/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/05/31/is-shaw-packet-preferencing/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » Vonage Protests Shaw Third Party VoIP QoS Fee Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:47:25 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/?p=603#comment-1270 [...] Almost a year ago Shaw started offering its customers a $10 QoS fee to provide quality of service assurance on third party VoIP services, such as Vonage. As I wrote in an article on net neutrality in the January issue of Butterworth’s Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, the price seemed designed to neutralize the price advantage that Vonage offered its customers over the Shaw VoIP offering, and I’ve always been dubious that there was anything to it other than a duopolist’s opportunistic exploitation of its market power. [...] [...] Almost a year ago Shaw started offering its customers a $10 QoS fee to provide quality of service assurance on third party VoIP services, such as Vonage. As I wrote in an article on net neutrality in the January issue of Butterworth’s Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, the price seemed designed to neutralize the price advantage that Vonage offered its customers over the Shaw VoIP offering, and I’ve always been dubious that there was anything to it other than a duopolist’s opportunistic exploitation of its market power. [...]

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