Everything on IP

Jeff Pulver approves this message:

...in time all global telecommunications will become Internet Protocol (IP) based.

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In his opinion, this industry has spent too much time and energy on creating rules and regulations to govern the use of VoIP as opposed to embracing the technology and developing it and making it available for wider use in the community. Pulver made the point however, that despite these objections, the use of VoIP continued to grow at a rapid pace, and the threat of this wide spread use resulted in telephone companies in the United States dropping to their overseas rates, particularly to their major trading partners.

All telephone communications will become IP based Jeff Pulver, Jeff Pulver Blog, October 23, 2006, quoted from Jeff Pulver: All telephone communications will become IP based By Randy Howard, Barbados Advocate, Mon Oct 23 2006

I don't know what's more remarkable: that someone clearly says what is the case,or that a newspaper got it right.

Then there's the corollary: dropping long distance rates incented telcos to abrogate net neutrality, so that they can get their monopoly back without having to come up with new value added services to make money.

-jsq

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[luca]

A presentation I gave during last VON Europe, about "everything over IP":

http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/Filigheddu%20-%20Industry%20Perspective.ppt