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Originally Posted by ianathuth
How do you equate the above to the pricing of telephone services which to me are an even more vital utility than the internet. I know that there are various talk schemes about but there is no catch all fixed price telephone service.
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First of voice telephony is much more 'price incremental' than internet access is. This is because voice telphony is still dominated by a 'circuit switched' architecture and not a packet switched one.
Having said that fixed price telephony does exist for local and national calls now. If and when VoIP becaomes common then ultimately fixed price voice to anywhere in the world will be commercialy viable and possible - provided the telco's do not manage to have their commercial interests placed above those of the more important 'social' interest of all of us.