One second each direction = two seconds roundtrip latency. Half a second jitter on that... is that really "bloody good"?
It is, because that is the maximum. It would be a different story if it was the actual, average latency. To be fair, stating this as the minimum guaranteed latency is obvious, because the Internet is a 'best-effort' type of service, the latency I measure is still always better than this.
Juha; I have been testing VoIP services and servers from my XTRA-Jetstream-ADSL connection at home and it works sweet. Not just sweet but really sweet, I have signed up to Slingshot & SIP providers in the UK and had faultless, inter-network service with good latency (~150ms 300ms max) which makes for perfectly usable VoIP.
'the regulated UBS was deliberately designed to prevent voice over IP is in the government documents that were released'
It's fine for Telecom to do that. The law says so.
Please, can you prove this?
I read the cabinet paper too. It mentions that Telecom will be prohibited from discriminating against realtime services! Can you refer me to a page/paragraph? The regulation you read may have been an old revision? (the document you linked to has been changed numerous times)