There are a lot of discussion about termination charges at VON. Particularly, the recent Madison River blocking Vonage incident bring out more horror stories about Rural LECs (e.g. high termination charges). Well, what do you expect? RLEC used to be a mini-monoploy and the gateway to their communtiy. In the past, there are no way […]
Month: March 2005
VON Pre-conference
I spent my morning at Wifi VoIP Summit as I was given a slot to give a presentation about the APEET Trial. When I told the audience that QoS is the last thing in our mind in our trial, one of the audience jumped and said something to the effect that 802.11b can only support […]
Internet Performance
Got this interesting report (via Ran Atkinson) on performance of Internet. Academic paper but have lots of interesting information about quality of the network (packet loses, ping times, rount trip time etc) from US to various part of the world. Bottomline: Internet Performance is improving a lot since 2001. :-) Internet performance is improving each […]
Packed up ready to go to VON
Just finish packing my stuff and going to the airport now. I am going to VON Spring in San Jose. VON folks are kind enough to squeeze me a few minutes last minute at the Wifi VoIP Summit to give an update of the APEET Trial. I will also be on the VoIP blogger panel […]
Yahoo! into Social Software
This would be an exciting news a year ago. But today, it sound just like “me too me too”. Yahoo, where have you been in the last 2 years? You are too late to the party. Why not acquire SixApart who is already doing very cool stuff? Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news) […]
Successful trial at APRICOT2005
APEET Press Release: Singapore, Mar 4, 2005 – Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team (APEET) announced the successful conclusion of the APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial at APRICOT 2005. The Live Trial conducted by APEET involves loaning Wifi SIP phones, sponsored by Hitachi-cable, preconfigured with an ENUM number and SIP account. Participants in the Live Trial was […]
Common sense prevailed
Yohoo! In the case of Vonage vs unnamed LEC (Madison River), Common Sense : 1, Stupidity : 0. Even though the decision is pretty much expected, I am surprised how fast this gets resolved. Thank you, FCC and Mr. Powell! Fresh on MSN and InternetWeek: In a first-of-its-kind penalty, a telephone company will pay $15,000 […]
.net domain name “tax”
Was scanning through some of my old comments and thought this conversation with Mark Mueller is interesting enough to be reposted. James, Would be interesting to hear your view on ICANN’s intention to charge a per domain fee of $1 in the “.net” space? I believe they will not only start charging in the “.net” […]
Very Big Transfer
I am not sure I can wait 1 year for the download to be completed :-)
VoIP : To Regulate or not Regulate?
I was reading the latest issue of ITU News and on the front cover of the magazine is as titled above. It is a informative article, particularly with survey of the 132 ITU Member States on the regulatory regime for VoIP. But unfortunately, never really answer the question: To Regulate or not Regulate? While many […]