Michael Gallagher is the Assistant Secretary, US Dept of Commerce. Apparently, his title does not do him justice : He actually advises the President on ICT development in US. Anyway, he sound like campaigning for the President ;-) but it has been very informative filled with data, President’s policies and how it is affecting the […]
Category: VoIP
VON Exhibits (Part 1)
Walked a little bit around VON Exhibition in the late afternoon but only managed to half of it before they closed. Anyway, lots of gadgets on displays but a lot of it are just “me too”. But here are also some pretty cool toys. 1) Motorola They are finally here – GSM + WiFi phone! […]
10 years backward, 10 years forward
One of the things that striked me at the evening panel (as titled above) was that several panelists mentioned that 10 years ago, numerous (AT&T lab) engineers told them VoIP was not possible at all. Reasons cited inclued needing a lot of CPU power, lack of bandwidth, poor sound quality etc etc. But wala, here […]
Michael Powell Farewell
Many stood up and welcome Michael Powell, Chairman of FCC, as he entered the room. He gave an excellent stateman-like speech, a farewell nevertheless. I feel quite sad1 that he is leaving office in the time when the VoIP industry needs a pro-active FCC chairman in these times. His final remark is that of the […]
AOL Phone Service
Jon Miller, Chairman and CEO of AOL, just revealed AOL Phone Service (to be launch next month) at this morning session.
VON Town Hall
This is my first townhall session at VON. Basically an open mike no-barrier Q&A session with FCC folks (Jeffrey Carlisle, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau and Robertt Pepper, Chief of Policy Development). What is amazing is how open they are in answering the questions, about FCC views, position or thoughts on a whole slew of issues. […]
Outlook of Telecom Industry
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]