John Payne, here in Belize I'm paying $250.00US per month PLUS TAX for a 1MB DSL connection from BTL. I have two, one at home, one at the office. It's over $500.00US a month for the service. And BTL don't want me to use Vonage so they block it. I think my DSL fee is inflated to the point where I should be allowed to have Vonage or any other VOIP service I want.
I think your point would be valid in just about any other country but Belize, where we already pay 10 times what you pay and are being denied VOIP by the same phone company who gladly accept our inflated monthly fees.