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[OT] Comcast phone service?



On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:11:02AM -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >Not that I am trying to sign up people with Comcast, but their Digital
> >Voice (Comcast's VOIP) is more expensive than Skype, BroadVoice and
> >Vonage, but has the advantage that it connects to the phone system
> >within Comcast. 
> >  
> There's certainly a tradeoff between quality and cost between Comcast 
> (higher quality, privacy) and other VOIP providers.
                  ^^^^^^^^^

As far as one trusts Comcast, of course. Does Microsoft still own 8% or so
(http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0320-01.htm) of them? In any case;
if I was really worried about privacy, I would add my own layer of security,
and not rely on my provider to do that for me - regardless of who it is.

Ward.

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