Uhura had one of those a long time ago.
Posted on 06/16/2006 7:29:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Voice over IP wielding the knife, says analyst
VoIP technology spells the end of traditional home telephone numbers, according to an industry analyst.
A study by JupiterResearch claims that the rise in fixed/mobile telephone services appeals strongly to Europeans, and that location will cease to be important for either making or receiving calls.
The report said that 27 per cent of consumers are already interested in regularly using their mobile phone in place of their home telephone.
"VoIP will convert the home telephone from analogue to digital and, once digital, the home telephone number will become unfixed," said Ian Fogg, lead author of the reports and senior analyst at JupiterResearch.
"It will no longer be available just at home, but in the office, in internet cafes and even on mobile phones."
Fogg explained that VoIP telephony is attractive to consumers because services are cheap and flexible.
The study found that PC-based VoIP telephony already appeals to 17 per cent of consumers in Europe, with 21 per cent interested in diverting their home telephone to a mobile phone showing their desire to use their home telephone number wherever they are.
However, Fogg warned that services must be allowed to operate across other providers' systems if uptake is to be successful.
"Mobile operators and internet VoIP competitors must lobby to ensure that their VoIP services operate unimpeded across other ISPs' connections, or they must be prepared to invest in fixed broadband to ensure the security of network supply for their VoIP services," he said.
Cisco has several queueing tools that enable a network administrator to specify what type of traffic is special or important and to queue the traffic based upon that information. The most popular technique is WFQ.I will read this on the weekend when I have more time.
Actually, no. While long distance and even local calls have been transported digitially beginning about 30 years ago, the "traditional" carriers use different protocols - SDH and SONET, not IP.
What does VoIP fraud have to do with cell phones being the primary reason that landlines are declining in usage?
Hope that helps =:0)
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I would like to give this query a shot, if Karl does not mind. Landline usage was "metered" by the bits and bytes. Then it went to the "minute", and shortly thereafter to the "6 seconds". With the advent of giga-bandwidth, it became more economical to measure by the gallon than by the drop. This is why the cellular/wireless providers could do "any distance". It became onerous to perform billing and subscriber management inter-LATA, intra-LATA, and LD across a burgeoning subscriber base. Mind you that nobody was losing money, since there were multi-year commitments initiated. Analog cellular was phased out as soon as possible due to the rampant fraud. Digital technology took a few more months to become compromised, yet it has been. As long as pre-paid wireless voice/data is available; there will be fraud.
Oh, I know all that. I was insinuating that he missed the point of my post.
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Uhura had one of those a long time ago.
Their dispatcher. That's how they arrange to pick you up when you call the taxi number in the yellow pages. They used to use radios to talk to a central dispatcher, now it's a cell phone.
I have Verizon DSL and I have lost my connection only once. I used to have Adelphia cable internet and rarely maintained a connection for a full hour at a time.
What is worse is the people with the "push to talk" phones. Now I get to hear both sides of their stupid conversation.
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You forgot to mention the 100-mile stare they have when they're talking through their ear. If I were a pickpocket...
VoIP is mobile to the exctent you can take it with you anywhere. Took mine to Okinawa last year as the hotel where we stayed had high speed internet. People called me on my "local" phone number. Also have a virtual number so old customers in one territory can still call my old number which is "local" for them and new customers in another territory can call on a new number that is "local" to them.
If I expand to a new territory I just add another virtual number for local access to customers there.
Out of the office, call forward or simul-ring goes to my cell phone automatically.
Lose internet connection and it automatically forwards to any number I choose.
Toll-free number is also available to cover larger areas or national.
I can even get a local phone number in another country if I want customers there to be able to contact me on what would be a "local" phone call for them.
Make as many outgoing long distance calls as I want for one flat monthly charge without ALL the taxes.
My company phone bill is now 1/5th of what it was with landlines.
We dumped the land line in our new home. Seems as though we were running to answer either a sales pitch or a "come to revival meeting" message (deep South).
HELLO PHONE COMPANIES!!!!!!!!!!!! are you getting the message?????????? We do not miss you.
Our two cell phones have served us well - VOIP is next.
No these are the yellow cabs, the ones who pick up street hails. I don`t know, maybe they are talking to phone sex lines. Their phones bills must be humongous
I installed a VOIP system in our office over 5 years ago at a fraction of the cost of a Nortel type system.
It is simple to manage and actually works better every year. Last year we added a conference bridge and this year we added a front door intercom panel that allows anyone in the office to screen visitors and remotely unlock the door.
I've had TimeWarnerTelecom digital phone in my house for over a year now. No problems.
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