And no, actually bittorrent was developed as a way to transfer large files while eliminating bottlenecks. In short the primary purpose for it’s development was in open-source distribution.

You might as well claim that FTP was invented because of filesharing.

Well done, Asshat.

And although a marketing director did raise the issue of allowing VoIP in their networks or not he was publicly lynched in the papers and as far as i can tell Telenor dropped the idea quickly. Given that they are profiling themselves as a mobile broadband-carrier first and foremost this was probably a wise decision.

But i do take offense when a carrier promises a certain bandwidth but neglects to tell me how they manage that traffic, giving me a fifth of those speeds for anything but plain http.

Traffic shaping is another can of worms entirely and very reprehensible.

Which is a bad thing as that means you don’t have a fast, reliable and cheap way to back up your data.

And then there’s the entire skype problem. Most carriers should realize that they would earn more from providing a reputably reliant broadband service than their phone sector would satisfy. The margins are notably higher.

And customer satisfaction speaks for itself. That’s why we see a lot of flak hitting Swedish telcos which admit they are not including VoIP in there 3G/4G solutions.