Am I the only one who realizes that while voice is approaching commoditization, you still have a lot of specialty equipment required for moving calls? It's not

Am I the only one who realizes that while voice is approaching commoditization, you still have a lot of specialty equipment required for moving calls? It's not the same as IP, where, for instance, the time to reorder the packets on arrival is inconsequential, whereas in VoIP it's death if those packets aren't sorted in under 200ms. Is Voice WAY more expensive than it has to be? Yes. Is it 5 factors overpriced? Probably not. The $ figures cited in the article treat voice like another packet and it just isn't. Source: I work at a company that's trying to open-source core telecom infrastructure.