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Free VoIP for Dartmouth Students

Posted by michael on from the too-cheap-to-meter dept.

dtfusion writes "After upgrading their network infrastructure and doing some testing over the summer, Dartmouth is making free voice over IP available to incoming freshman. It turns out it was costing them more to bill the students for local and long distance than for the calls themselves. What will the success/failure of VoIP on this scale have on telecom?" There's an older story and a newer story from the Dartmouth public affairs office; that second one probably spurred the NYT article. The sysadmin-types are planning to study usage during the rollout.

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  1. i for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    welcome our VoIP Dartmouth student overlords fp

  2. If this post is modded down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Then the moderator is a fat unemployed debian fanboy living in his parents basement who will never get laid, and since hes to fat to reach his penis he will never jack off either.

    1. Re:If this post is modded down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Bah. I'm Bill Gates I stole your money when you bought windows and now I modded you down.

  3. *kneeling down* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I, for one, welcome our new Overlord-VoIPs!

  4. whoopty fucking doo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stony Brook University has had this feature in the dorms for over 3 years already

    Good job being biased on state colleges, slashbribe

  5. first they get free WAREZ, now they even get... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... free SexOverIP... jeeebuz crist, them students are nuthin but warezleechers, riaa/mpaa annoyance and now even SEX/PORN over IP listeners

    oh did u say voice? whistle.... musica industry will shut them down immediately.

    didnt u know that they OWN VOICE..... uhmm.. they wish they did. could charge for every sound and voice transported thru those links...

    voiceoverip is nowhere yet, or barely anywhere.

  6. Re:VoIP DDoS by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's got to be the funniest thing I've read today. I actually snickered, which is saying a lot after 8 mindnumbing hours at work.

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  7. JESUS. This is the new Stupid Joke. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I got an "Overlord" for you, BEND OVER LITTLE BOY!

  8. Reminds me of a joke I once heard: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Q:What do Dartmouth, VoIP, and Michael have in common?


    A:They are all fucking gay.

  9. Re:POTS vs. VoIP? Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've always been fascinated by the VoIP vs. POTS argument.

    You are a sad and pathetic little man.