Is Comcast Discriminating Against VoIP Providers?
January 19, 2009
After a year of back and forth over Comcast's network management practices, the cable provider is now under fire for allegedly giving priority to its own IP-based digital phone service over that of competing VoIP providers. — Yes, they are. However, this is the nature of the Internet. It is not possible for Comcast to differentiate a customer's voice traffic from other kinds of traffic. But, its own phone service is easily differentiated due to the technology employed. Comcast does not deserve punishment for this one.