<div dir="ltr">TDM only stands for faxing and paying FCC fees. If a packet transverses your entire network as a packet then it's never a toll charge. It's a packet. This is why they are pressing hard to tax the internet more because the voice money games are slowing decreasing. It's a data war now.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Paul Timmins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@timmins.net" target="_blank">paul@timmins.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">T-Mobile is entirely switching away from TDM connectivity and using IQ for their entire TDM interop from what a little birdie told me. That alone seemed like a pretty big paradigm shift.<br>
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> On Dec 5, 2015, at 15:00, Alex Balashov <<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 12/05/2015 04:55 PM, Paul Timmins wrote:<br>
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>> I'd say probably 1/3 to 1/2 of our traffic ends up never touching<br>
>> RBOC equipment.<br>
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> Oh, okay, so there's been some progress in this area since I last looked around.<br>
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> I suppose it's moderated by the degree to which the Tier 1 CLEC oligopoly that feeds the VoIP supply chain is willing to participate. And it sounds like their willingness may be higher than I imagined.<br>
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