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Originally Posted by erol
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.
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How do you arrive at that conclusion? Look at the pricing of NTL telephony for example. They charge 20p per minute for calls to France unless you are on their international plan when it is only 5p. Another company Call 18866 can give you the same call for 1p per minute and even calls to Australia, New zealand and USA and USA mobiles are only 1p per minute.
Yes, fixed price telephony does exist for SOME local and national calls but there is NO catch all fixed price option like the broadband pricing model that you advocate.