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AT&T Announces VoIP Program

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hat-into-ring-thrown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DeviceForge reports that AT&T has unveiled a program to foster the 'development, delivery, and adoption' of emerging voice over IP (VoIP) applications, capabilities, and devices. The program, based on proprietary AT&T specifications, is intended to enable 'select vendors' to test applications and equipment against AT&T specs and thereby ensure compatibility with AT&T's evolving VoIP communication services. AT&T has invited industry leaders representing application developers, equipment, device manufacturers, and silicon vendors to participate in the program in order to 'shape and scale' the emerging VoIP market."

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  1. Let's see it by PtM2300 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's kind of funny. The company I work for works closely with AT&T and provides them with a lot of revenue. In our weekly meeting with our AT&T team today, they told us their VoIP road map is being delayed based on problems they're having with Juniper. So if AT&T wants to speed of the VoIP process, they could get their own plan going before influencing others.

  2. Let me guess by caffeineboy · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It'll be just as great a deal as their landline service...

    • Extra 2.50 for call waiting
    • extra 7.00 for voice mail, plus an extra 2.50 per mailbox and a charge for each message.
    • Extra 2.50 for three way calling
    • Extra charges for caller ID blocking, caller ID blocker blocking, and caller ID blocker blocker blocking.
    • Extra charge for "line backer", which means that they will come to the house and fix the non-premise wiring that is not my freaking problem anyway. Extra charge for touching a phone in the house, and an additional $70 for the service call.
    • And of course, for toggling any of these options on my account, a $10 charge each for "installation".


    GODS I am glad that I don't have to deal with AT&T anymore. Hell, I would take a really crappy VOIP company over AT&T, if only to avoid giving that crappy monopoly a cent more of my money.

    Unless they are also planning to totally change their crappy attitude towards customers and their nickle-and-dime pricing scheme, this won't change a thing. I would love to see POTS go out of business forever.

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