'Phantom' Voice Traffic Costing Billions

Some VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and mobile phone service providers are riding free when connecting to the traditional telephone network in the U.S., potentially costing carriers billions of dollars, according to testimony at a Senate hearing Wednesday.

According to Lawrence Sarjeant, vice president of federal legislative and regulatory affairs at Qwest Communications International, phantom traffic costs traditional carriers between $600 million and $2 billion a year. "Traditional telephone carriers have "made a lot of investments" in their networks and deserve to be compensated for traffic coming from outside the network", he said.

[via PCWorld.com[

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