Vonage Canada is asking federal regulators to investigate what it calls a thinly veiled VoIP tax by one of its competitors. Joe Parent, VP, Vonage Canada said that Shaw Communications was unfairly using the so called tax to unfairly drive up VoIP prices in Western Canada. He has filed a request to the CRTC for conducting an investigation.
According to Joe Parent:
Shaw’s VoIP tax is an unfair attempt to drive up the price of competing VoIP services to protect its own high-priced service adding that Shaw charges a fee whenever Vonage customers route their calls over Shaw’s internet lines.
This case is a part of a growing battle across North America between internet providers and their users. The major part of the controversy is around VoIP calls whereby phone calls are routed through a computer interne service instead of the usual telephone system.
via [CBC]
