Raising VOIP Consciousness
Posted by Toxicfume on 22 July 2004 - 18:01 · 3 comments & 1005 views
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#1 Posted by insurektion on 22 Jul 2004 - 20:27
- launching in canada via a major company soon within 2 months. i kno you cna still get the low key setups but this is gonna be huge.
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#2 Posted by jpcahn on 22 Jul 2004 - 21:58
- If you have a Cable provider for your high speed there is no reason that I can fathom not to switch to one of the IP phone companies. I have Packet8 because it is cheaper then Vonage. So far it has been great. They have excellent customer service. The calls sound better then a regular call in my opinion so it's a no brainer. If you have DSL its a harder choice because the DSL companies make you keep a phone line to use DSL. Only a very few let you get DSL without a dialtone. Yes this is possible in case you did not know.
One trick if you want to switch. Make sure you have no dialtone on your line first and that it is completely disconnected from the phone company before you try this. Instead of plugging a phone directly into the VOIP box they send, plug a phone wire from the box to a phone jack near your router. You will lose use of THAT jack however every OTHER jack in your house will have a dialtone now. I tried this twice so far at two different houses and it worked.
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#3 Posted by scoobydoobie on 23 Jul 2004 - 10:52
QUOTE Only a very few let you get DSL without a dialtone
How is this possible? Explain please
That's all well and good, but the industry still needs to realize how Greek—or invisible—this technology and service are to most.
VOIP's relative obscurity is born out by a June 28 report from the Pew Institute, which finds that just 27 percent of Internet users in the United States—or 17 percent of all Americans—have heard of Internet telephony, and 3 percent of Internet users have considered adopting VOIP technology in the home.
Eleven percent of Internet users, or about 14 million Americans, have made at least one VOIP phone call. The survey, conducted in February 2004, drew 2,204 respondents, of which exactly one was using VOIP in the home.
Indeed, a few weeks spent freelancing at a travel magazine this spring—for a change of scenery, from SIP-component network diagrams to pink-sand beaches—was illuminating. I asked six or seven young, intelligent and presumably literate writers assembled in the lunch corner if they'd ever heard of Internet telephony. Only one writer nodded. She was the departmental tech guru, and the only editorial staffer who knew how to make Quark CopyDesk type a tilde.
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According to the article at MSNBC, the new iPod will also contain the following features:
Personally, I am hoping that some of these new features will be made available to existing users through firmware updates. I guess we will just have wait and see...