Catching up on Andy’s blogging, I came across his post mentioning a Dutch MSO that has stepped up and admitted that, in order to provide high quality end-to-end VoIP (as I previously griped about the telcos demonstrating no significant progress in cooperating on), a bit of inter-carrier cooperation will be needed. This is significant because you haven’t heard much from any sizable network carrier about providing interoperable VoIP quality measures. Thus far, the answer from big phone companies has always been something along the lines of, “buy our expensive MPLS network and lock in all your locations to it, even where you have a cheap local access company we refuse to deal with.” QoS end-to-end is the idea; let’s hope it’s not just political lip service coming out of an idealistic young executive at that Dutch cable company. Now at least somebody is talking the talk.