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.
Are those the "walkie-talkie" phones that make that loud cricket chirp that signifies that one party has stopped transmitting? If you are at one end of a Super Made-in-China-Mart you can hear someone's phone chirping away at the other end. And people who are half-deaf turn the volume all the way up.
Who was your Voip provider?
I'm considering Sun Rocket. They are less than $17 for unlimited US calls and loaded with features.
Vonage
You are misinformed. They migrated voice traffic to IP many years ago -- I remember because of the regulatory/contractual mess it made at the time. As for SONET and SDH, you are misunderstanding the technology. The telcos were running IP over SONET over a decade ago and were even running IP over Ethernet over SONET six or seven years ago (a gross hack, but too many peering points went to Ethernet fabrics and they wanted to save their investment in SONET equipment). VOIP = Voice Over *IP*. The Layer-2 transport used is mostly irrelevant. The telco protocols used to be common for long-haul L2, but GigE ate their lunch about five years ago.
Well .. I went with EarthLink because my son used to work for them as a senior tech, and I knew some background on them and that they were not some fly-by-night outfit.
You're right. But I won't shut down my landline phone until I have zero drop-offs on my cell. Right now, I have about five a day.
For my model of router (Linksys BEFSX41, Firmware Version: 1.52.9) I select the "Applications & Gaming" tab and then the QoS sub-option. Then I enter the MAC address of the VoIP adapter in the provide location on the form and set it's priority to "High." That's all I needed to do, because after that device gets the bandwidth it needs I don't really care about how the other computers share the bandwidth.
In about 1993, WilTel developed ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) packet switching to increase network bandwidth, but the ATM model is different than the OSI model. ATM was intended for reliable voice and video transport (and was originally used without TCP/IP,) but of course can also be used for data - it's used on the Internet backbone.
Level 3 was the first telecommunications carrier to base its voice network on VoIP, in about 2000. (About the same time, Novell began supporting IP directly, as an alternative to IPX.) To me, this does not qualify as "many years."
Hope that helps =:0)
Dang! I just got my decoder ring!
(Watch...somebody is going to ask how to download the "decoder ringtone"....)
Smart cabbies network. They start to build up a clientele of "private" customers they take care of "off-the-grid." I know...I have a cabbie's private number, I know him, and he goes out of his way for me. (NO WISECRACKS, pls!!)
Most of the cabbies I know have a regular roster of clients they take to the beauty salon, etc., on a regular basis.
Do the local authorities know where he is if he dials 911? That's my main worry for my mom.
Yep, I am thinking of losing the landline when I move in November...
Please explain the basics of efax. I looked into it a year or so ago and did not like the idea of logging on to a website and paying them a service charge to fax something on my computer to a remote fax machine.
I just want to load the papers and hit the fax button after dailing the fax numbers. Can I do that as simply with VoIP? TIA.
Skype is terrible! We didn't even use the first $10 we had. And this was to Ireland.
I don`t know, I can see wanting to do that if it was a slow day, but to me it woudln`t be worth it. Like say I`m all the way down in Brooklyn and somone calls me from Harlem wanting a trip to the beauty salon, it would be one pain in the neck to drive allll the way up there when I could just as easily pick up anyone off the street in Brooklyn. I would probably only do that phone thing if it was regular people who want to go to the airport. Another thing I don`t get is all these cabbies who hang out in front of hotels, you always see these huge lines, especially in front of the Hilton on 6th avenue. These guys have to be waiting at least 2 to 3 hours, so after 3 hours they drive someone to Kennedy (and that`s if they are lucky enough to get someone who wants to go to Kennedy), that`s only $40 they made in 3 hours. Meanwhile in that time I`ve made $100 just by driving around picking people off the street.
You get 200 regular customers and you got a good thing going. You pick up pick-ups on the side.
That's the way I'd run a biz.
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