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The Continued Advance of VoIP

Posted by Hemos on from the like-a-glacier-coming-down dept.

A reader writes: "With the recent VoIP ruling from the FCC, it appears that the playing field in the US is ready for take off. There's been some more coverage on that, but companies are begining to wonder about how to manage all of this - but PMC-Sierra (one of the big chip makers) has announced additional support for it."

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  1. Who on slashdot needs a phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The girl you fantasize about WON'T call you.

  2. It's time by rewt66 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Time to sell your stock in long-distance companies...

  3. Riding the VOIP wave by aacool · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've had VOIP from Lingo for 3 months now - $19.99 per month - free US & Europe - couldnt live without it. I cancelled my landline after a week. Very satisfied and referred VOIP to many people.

    My company has been on VOIP globally for a while now. Definitely reaching critical mass now.

    The system would not work outside the Western world, though, with the spotty coverage, limited bandwidth and power (electricity) problems that do exist.

  4. Bandwidth too please by Magickcat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless more basic infrastructure impovements are made in providing decent bandwidth to these technologies, I'm not likely to enjoy VoIP terribly much.

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  5. Re:VoIP that interesting? by Paska · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's very interesting, you know why? It saves me over $1000/month on phone bills! I work for a US based company that is located in Australia. Before I was paying Hel$tra $1000US/month for all our phone calls to US/Canada and UK. Now I pay Broadvoice around $70US/month, and I get unlimited calls, I get features I didn't even know existed (E.g. Caller Name) and the best of it all, I don't have to pay Hel$tra one single cent. Also the quality over here is absolutely brilliant, and is far better then my Cell phone and local land line.

  6. Unmetered phone ... unmetered electric by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How ironic. In the 1960's, there was a big push for all-electric homes (electric heat, electric hot water heaters, electric stoves) because nuclear power promised to make electricity so inexpensive, it wouldn't be worth metering -- we'd all someday just pay a flat monthly rate to keep the grid and the plants maintained.

    Well, we all know how that particular story ended up. But who would have imagined, back in the days of 40 cent per minute interstate calling, that someday telephone service would become so cheap that it wouldn't be worth metering? Unmetered telephone service? Now you're just crazy talking!

    I suppose it's somewhat ironic (in an Alanis Morrisette fashion, not true irony) that it's really just people problems, not technology problems, that we have to solve in order to make these things come true.

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