Do-It-Yourself VOIP Telco

Posted by michael on Friday May 28, 2004 @01:27AM from the some-hacking-required dept.

DamnYankee writes "Robert X. Cringley predicts the coming demise of the landline telco monopolies from the grassroots encroachment of VoIP and Linux on the latest generation of Wifi routers. According to Bob, 'The result is a system with economics with which a traditional local phone company simply can't compete'. With Linux capabilities and builtin VoIP any Mom and Pop can become the local equivalent of a cellular phone company for the price of $79 Wifi router. Now how is Verizon going to compete with that? Get the full scoop from the man himself."

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Re:I tried this as a child by superid · 2004-05-28 01:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Your roaming policy was just too restrictive.
Re:not gonna happen, the lobbies are too powerful by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-28 02:04 · Score: 5, Funny

So you're basically saying that VoIP makes your phone calls as controllable as your spam email?

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