Phones and errr Phones

[Roland Perry]

In message <BFF52FDC33E1E74B8B6C10E097D3096A351901@UK001S002.d.grp>,
Adam Atkinson <Adam.Atkinson@damovo.com> writes
>I'm also curious to know what happens if your phone, e.g.
>at work, is really a voice over IP system, and you are't
>aware of this.

There are some small details that the local loop supplier has to get
right - like offering 999/100/192 and power-fail service (both of which
require non-trivial efforts for a pure VoIP local loop).

see http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/internet/2002/voip0402.htm#10

But these aren't matters for the user - although their implementation
details will probably mean that the user (or his office manager or
whetever) *is* aware of the nature of the service.

>At a higher level, some international trunks use voice over IP.
>I believe some of these sell capacity to the likes of BT.

At least one big voice telco has migrated almost all its international
traffic onto its own global IP network.

>If BT routes your call over a voice over IP trunk, does its
>legal status change?

Not in any way I'm aware of.

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