It seems like a good idea to repeat this URL with a slightly more
apropos subject line:
http://www.pulver.com/hr1542
It looks like the ghost of Ma Bell, the U.S. Telecomm Association,
is going after IP telephony with a vengance, and politics that
probably include most of their annual lobbying budget (still "cheap
politics" if you don't think $0.21 of each U.S. phone bill funneling
to their Washington, D.C. lobbyists is "expensive"!)
I propose a concerted effort by the major non-telco ISPs to devote
a portion of their bandwidth, perhaps only during non-peak hours,
to PSTN/H.323 gateways open free to the public.
Cheers,
James