From: malQRMassimilation@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:35:46PM +0000, fred wrote:   
   > On  Mon, 5 Sep 2022 20:49:48 +0000, Bill Horne wrote:   
   > > My callcentric VoIP phone stopped working yesterday, and it's still out.   
   >   
   > Quite some years back, there was an ISP in North Carolina that blocked   
   > all of its VOIP ports outgoing [towards the Internet].  It's a   
   > foregone conclusion that they were forcing everyone to subscribe to   
   > the VOIP service that they provided or do without.   
   >   
   > Their subscribers were furious.  Apparently, one very bold subscriber   
   > made a complaint with the FCC.  No, it was not me.   
   >   
   > The FCC socked that ISP with a nasty fine and very promptly ordered   
   > them to unblock those VOIP ports.   
   >   
   > A few days later, they did so.  So everyone was then able to subscribe   
   > to the VOIP service of their choice.   
      
   I'll try to get through to one of the regulators without doing a   
   formal complaint: that worked the last time, and I hope it'll work   
   again.   
      
   > The ultimate solution is to go with a different ISP.  That assumes   
   > that there is a second one in your area.  If all else fails, you could   
   > go with satellite Internet.   
   >   
   > I do not recommend that approach.  ...   
      
   Nor I: the transit time to and from the Clarke belt is just too high   
   for any kind of interactive conversation. As for using a different   
   ISP, my only choice would be an ADSL line from Frontier, my local   
   ILEC, but I don't know what restrictions they place on Internet   
   traffic, so better the frying pan I know than the fire I don't.   
      
   Bill Horne   
      
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