Daily VoIP Links for 2006-06-19
"This bill does nothing to ensure Net Neutrality. All it does is say in effect to consumers, well, if you think your ISP is slowing down your Google, well you have the right to complain to the FCC."
"These few lines just to say that VoIP can demonstrate that is not a bubble, but the
trick is to work VERY HARD to create new business models and innovative initiatives, without thinking that VoIP can bring money from nothing. VoIP is a new technology that can be used to create value. Let's work (everyone involved in the VoIP scenario, starting from the VCs) to do that, not just to speculate on it."
(Registration required) "If approved, those rules could drive up prices for Internet calling, which allows customers to make cheap or free calls worldwide using technology similar to the way e-mail is delivered. That, in turn, could hamper the industry just as it is getting started."
"Governments around the world are wrestling with the impact of VoIP on telecom regulation. Some treat VoIP as just another way to deliver telephony services (and subject to all the taxes and regulatory constraints of legacy voice). Others view it as an emerging technology that has to be carefully nurtured, and therefore protected from taxes and regulatory constraints."
"While I'm scheduled to speak at VON Israel on Tuesday morning, I am planning on spending a good portion of my time on-site meeting with start-ups. My hope is to discover "the next big thing" in communications, someone and/or something beyond the current blogosphere hype surrounding 'Voice 2.0', 'Telco 2.0' and 'Communications 2.0.'"
"A group of Internet pioneers, including Vint Cerf, has authored a paper critical of the FCC CALEA requirement for VoIP."
"This is an interesting use of the iPod: scouting opposing baseball teams. Instead of having to watch game tapes on a TV in the locker room with the other sweaty guys, players can take their videos on the road and study them anytime—including right before gametime."