ravenII's Journal: How ISPs can kill VOIP services, that are not theirs

Some users noticed bandwidth drop in there broadband services when they installed voip services, from 6MB to 15-1.8MB or there abouts. So they set out to find answers, Interesting link to an article came up! PBS's i'Cringley's informative piece gives an eye-opening look at the anticompetitive behavior of some ISPs who are showing up late to the VoIP game. This is not something that could be easily mandated and the beauty of this approach is that they're NOT explicitly doing anything to the 3rd party service applications. They're just identifying and tagging their own services, which is within their rights. But services like this seems the way to avoid these measures.