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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. VoIP Democrats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it because the Republicans didn't need the calls, or that they couldn't figure out the VoIP software?

  2. Re:The calls were traced!? by isometrick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "... Sakaria did a quick check of caller IDs and found that most of the calls from the Democratic party ..."

    They actually did look at the caller ID of their customer's calls!? And at least researched them enough to figure out that they were Republican or Democratic volunteers?

    Holy crap! Isn't this kind of data mining illegal?

  3. traced? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how the hell can they trace it to "democrats", wow, talk about Orwells 1984 in action.

    1. 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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      Video Production Support
  4. VOIP, the FCC and the Telcos by aacool · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The VOIP boom is just beginning - the effect on the Telcos cannot be overestimated.

    Since the FCC is (currently) Republican, except harder regulation in the upcoming Presidential term on VOiP carriers.

    It's a stretch though, to imagine that Democrats are larger VOIP users than Republicans - that's data mining carried to the extreme.

  5. mostly Democratic volunteers by Threni · · Score: 5, Funny

    > The calls were traced to mostly Democratic volunteers making calls in key
    > battleground states."

    Well, given that they'll all be crying, I guess at least there'll be a good compression ratio!

  6. Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More than 50% of the American people supports the president who started a war and deceived his people and the world about the prerequisite of that war. Regardless of the outcome of the election, the world will remember the statement you as a country gave to the world today.