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U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump

Posted by timothy on from the far-out-to-mainstream dept.

phoneboy writes "According to this news story on Voxilla.com, a number of VoIP service providers have experienced higher-than-normal call volumes today. The calls were traced to mostly Democratic volunteers making calls in key battleground states."

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  1. Huh?? by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ummm ok...so what is so important about this bit of news? Are they implying that most VOIP users are democrats?

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  2. Re:traced? by tonsofpcs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems more like they monitor them. With some of these VoIP agreements, you let them not only track your calls, but monitor them. Read your agreements. This has changed for many of them since they started, but some still do have a monitoring provision.

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