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  awaddell 4:05 am on September 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: VoIP   

  India wants to ban international VoIP calls 

  India wants to ban VoIP because Caller Line Identification (CLI) data may not be available. The idea that CLI addresses the need to identify the caller is nonsense because CLI can easily be spoofed.

  And for VoIP, it can just be tunneled. The terrorists will want to talk peer-to-peer and not terminate or originate calls via a PSTS-gated VoIP provider and they have ample options for how to do this.

  Given the ease with which peers can conduct a private conversation on an IP network, the Indian authorities would probably do better to focus on leveraging what they can with the law as it applies to the existing PSTN.

   

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  awaddell 4:19 pm on September 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: skype (6), VoIP   

  Skype Doubles Connection Fees For Some International Calls 

  This is why you use your friendly local VoIP provider and/or long-distance SIP-terminating VoIP provider. Otherwise, you’re a pawn.

  Skype Doubles Connection Fees For Some International Calls

  (Via Wired.)

   
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  awaddell 4:19 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: google (10), telco (5), VoIP   

  Meet Google, Your Phone CompanyThe Google Voice app essentially reduces the cell phone carrier to a dumb pipe.

  (Via Om’s Writings.)

   
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  awaddell 2:46 am on June 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: telco (5), VoIP, Wireless (4)   

  Vanishing Phone Lines 

  As I personally, launch a retail PSTS/broadband resale ISP, my overarching thoughts are of the need to provide a VoIP product – as much to secure business from the fixed-line exodus as to get an early start in the coming mobile IP Telephony boom

  Ma Bell and Its Vanishing Phone Lines

  Three years ago, the wireline revenues of U.S. phone companies were forecast to decline about 3.3 percent annually through 2009….

  (Via Om’s Writings.)

   
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  awaddell 3:22 am on April 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: net neutrality (6), skype (6), VoIP   

  Mobile carriers seek to block Skype on iPhone, BlackBerry 

  “…This arbitrary blocking of Skype represents a barrier to online business put in place by a private company just because they can, because they control access to the Internet.”

  via Mobile carriers seek to block Skype on iPhone, BlackBerry.

  Would be better expressed as ‘because they can’t compete’.

  The sooner these sort of actions and by extension, these sorts of carriers – dissappear into the annals of history, the better for the consumer and business alike.

  Now this is a net neutrality issue. The bastards are blocking internet services on the basis that it’s counter to their interest to permit them.

  I agree that it may incur some additional support burden on them – but it would not be happening if they had pre-empted it and provided VoIP first. Now, they simply have no options other to act like the fascist retrobates that they are.

  retrobate: noun. an idiot who is stuck in the past

  PS Don’t overlook this part “.. With the support of Apple, mobile carriers in the US, Canada and Germany have blocked Skype…”

  Which is exactly why I won’t be buying an iPhone

   
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  awaddell 1:02 pm on April 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: skype (6), VoIP   

  Get VoIP on your Mobile and Make Cheap Calls with Truphone.

  Another ‘unlimited’ offering disrupting switched and VoIP telephony.

  Interesting to see this in the UK while the Yanks are moving towards metered usage. See comments on bethere.co.uk

   
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  awaddell 5:34 pm on March 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: VoIP   

  Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week.

  Still more on Skype. Coming out on the iPhone will give mobile IP Telephony a good shot in the arm (Google mantra- if it grows the industry then it’s good for all and good for us).

  Me, I’m gonna be an Android Man and withstand the evil lure of proprietaryness. Unless the Palm Pre arrives soon in which case I could be seduced by such an angel.

   
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  awaddell 2:05 pm on March 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: skype (6), VoIP   

  Skype Targets Businesses to Ring Up New Revenue – WSJ.com.

  Sounds really good especially with follow-me features on the Asterisk side (ie given a Skype user is not an always-on proposition).

  But wait, it’s not so simple

  Still, a great adjunct for Asterisk if it pans out.

   
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  awaddell 12:40 pm on March 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: broadband (5), HSPA (5), VoIP   

  Be 24 meg broadband, the UK’s fastest broadband ISP.

  Be’s service is unlimited with no qualifications other than the ‘fair and reasonable usage’ clause but just limited on the speed up to 8Mbps or up to 24Mbps.

  This company is definitely an inspiration behind my interest in launching a retail ISP. The old bogey of it being impossible to do ‘real unlimited’ down under isn’t going away but the single and simple focus is right as is the price.

  In the US, “MetroPCS is driving the same low-entry point/no objections sale for mobile. As with aDSL2+ in the Be example above, a new provider can get the door open if they can get to these entry points sans objections.

  The answer,  for wireless in Australia  is HSPA with VoIP which means the critical technology is in the software stack on the user device. It’s early days.