This...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1772661,00.asp
is not a particularly interesting article, except for this gem on the
second page:
Richard Diamond, a spokesman at the FCC, said in a phone interview,
"There were allegations that the company had been blocking ports,
causing Vonage customers and possibly others to lose service. We
investigated starting Feb. 11. The results -- in very swift action three
weeks later, we arrived at a Consent Decree -- an agreement between the
FCC and the telephone company -- involving a voluntary contribution to
the U.S. Treasury and agreeing to initiate a compliance plan to make
sure this doesn't happen in the future."
(As for the rest of the article, it just seems like a simple breach of
contract to me -- the customers had paid for Internet service and the
telephone company was maliciously degrading that service without just
cause. They should be compensating their customers rather than the U.S.
Treasury.)
J.