Vonage Canada Launches Complaint Against Shaw VoIP Tax

7:55 am on March 9, 2006 | Category: Telecom Services, VoIP

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Leading VoIP provider, Vonage Canada, has put in a request for federal regulators to investigate what it calls a “thinly veiled VoIP tax” by rival, Shaw Communications.

Joe Parent, who is vice president of marketing at Vonage, says that Shaw’s decision to charge extra fees to broadband phone users are an unfair attempt at eliminating competitors to its own digital phone service.

Shaw is reportedly charging customers a $10 “quality of service enhancement” fee for the privilege of using another VoIP provider

“Shaw’s VoIP tax is an unfair attempt to drive up the price of competing VoIP services to protect its own high-priced service,” Parent claimed about the practice.

Shaw’s cable phone service with unlimited long distance calling currently costs $55, compared to $34.95 for a very similar service from Vonage.

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