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Comment And so telephony, or voice, is about to follow suit. For years, Skype and other VoIP services have been providing an internet alternative to traditional phone service. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield.
[01 May 2008]
Comment Very high standards are expected for telephony, which has typically operated to extremely high levels of availability, sometimes in the absence of mains power. It is essential to remember that VoIP services such as Skype calls are not free because...
[17 Apr 2007]
Comment While Skype's strong encryption prevents interception and eavesdropping, the software is still vulnerable to the vishing (phishing scams over VoIP) and social engineering threats that email and telephony also suffer from.
[02 Apr 2007]
AS Profile Take out a couple of VoIP upstarts - numbers 4 and 36 - and he is a lone representative for the operator community, certainly from the world of traditional telephony, whether mobile or fixed. Arun Sarin's position is an odd one in our annual Agenda...
[23 Sep 2005]
Comment Solutions are changing to include best-of-breed offerings from those who can provide us with integrated communications such as telephony (increasingly via VoIP), email response systems, instant messaging logging and auditing tools and web session...
[23 Sep 2005]
Comment However Jeff Ace, director of business development at AT&T, said this is the very problem with internet telephony: "VoIP is only as good as your ISP and quality of service you get from them. Yet Zennström likens the quality of VoIP service to...
[10 Nov 2004]
Comment Not only was the ACLU's effort wasted, but Clinton ended up signing the Communications Decency Act, and his deputies strong-armed Congress into approving the Digital Telephony Law - which today is creating no end of problems for VoIP companies.
[01 Nov 2004]
Comment One of the concerns industry watchers have about VoIP is the potential impact of regulation, with the industry is exempt from the restrictions imposed on traditional telephony service providers, but this may yet change.
[09 Sep 2004]
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