[*] The Jeff Pulver Blog: Om, Since You Ask, Here Are My Initial Thoughts on the PC-to-PSTN Price War:

[John Lange]

Yes. The Cable companies are very pro ENUM and peering.

I heard third hand that at a recent Cable industry conference some
speakers lambasted the audience for being too slow to cooperate between
themselves with peering.

For their part the Canadian Cable companies have said the only reason
they are not doing it is because they have been running at full speed
just to roll out their existing infrastructure. Peering is next though
so expect it before the end of 06.

Its not likely to be public though and it may even be more or less
secret so we might not hear about it.

-- 
John Lange
OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872
VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:31 -0500, Ron Dallmeier wrote:
> One of the issues with IX is that it is very difficult to free peer with
> an organization and sell transit services to them at the same time. IE -
> if I could IX with MTS I would have no reason to want to purchase
> bandwidth from them unless they were the cheapest. If I did buy bandwidth,
> the IX would reduce the amount of traffic that MTS could bill me for.
> 
> The cablecos like Shaw and Rogers do not sell ITSP services to other
> organizations (as far as I know). Therefore they stand to loose very
> little and gain by minimizing PSTN gateway resources (which they are
> currently paying their competition to obtain). If I were to wager - I
> would bet that the cablecos would be pro ENUM.
> 
> ...Ron
> 
> > Ron Dallmeier wrote:
> >> The following was one of the comments below. Unfortunately, in Canada,
> >> most of the cell providers are ILECs. But I wonder if companies like
> >> Rogers and Shaw would consider free voice "peering" with ITSPs.
> >>
> >
> > While if ENUM was working this would happen automatically. But this is
> > like IXs,
> > the big players do not really see it as in their interest to peer with
> > small
> > ISPs.  The PSTN access charges does change the equation a bit since they
> > would
> > save money even when talking to small ITSPs. I am assukming the cablecos
> > are
> > already peering or at least talking about peering among themselves.
> >
> > -- Bill
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