VoIP You

• [Daily Post from my people] VoIP You: The Battle for Neutrality Rages On

"Oh AT&T, will your quest for world domination never end?...It is easy to focus on only the perks and the present, but decisions that are affecting the future of VoIP, the Internet, and the price of information are being made. If you have an opinion on the matter, you owe it to yourself to voice it before the other side stops listening altogether."

• The Jeff Pulver Blog: Reminder: Only 7 Days Remain to File Comments on our Post-Disaster Communications Petition

"If you have not yet filed your own comments yet on the petition, PLEASE do so. The FCC has made the electronic comment filing procedure VERY simple. All you really need to do to weigh in is go to: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi, enter RM-11327 in the first line where it requests the "Proceeding" (this is the Petitions "RM" number), fill in the other minimal contact info requirements, and submit a brief statement in support."

• Techdirt: Forget Vibrate, What About Shock Mode?

"Mobile-phone maker Motorola has received a patent for a system that uses electric shocks to let somebody know when they're phone is ringing, rather than the usual ringtone or vibration."

• Realtime-VoIP: The VoIP Community Weblog: VoIP and VC Funding

"For the growing VoIP services companies, this is important because it does point to a quiet trend. Analog voice is becoming more digital all the time. Increasing tools and customer adoption of VoIP technologies have led to increased business for VoIP equipment, solutions and services providers. While cost is still a large driver behind VoIP migration, service convergence is gaining momentum."

• domain-B.com: Dialing in the VoIP strategic advantage

"While the vast majority of individuals and companies still rely on conventional phones, an estimated 30 percent of international phone traffic now travels over the Internet using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) according to an A.T. Kearny study last year."

• Techdirt: FCC Continues E911 Double Standard

"The FCC has proposed fining rural wireless operator Dobson Communications $750,000 for missing deadlines to implement emergency 911 systems -- you know, the same deadlines the FCC pushed back repeatedly and the ones they let some carriers ignore."