Friday links and questions
1. Verizon's injunction against Vonage seems like a death blow, from what I can understand. Verizon has no reason to settle or otherwise buy out Vonage; Vonage may have insufficient resources to challenge the validity of Verizon's patents. It's been a strange story from the beginning. Vonage is brave and popular, but they depended on the kindness of the network owners to exist. By rights they should exist, and their customers will be sorry to see changes. Do all “independent” VoIP products escape this cloud?
2. We could really use data showing that the incentive to invest in highspeed internet access networks isn't dampened by regulatory neutrality (or other related) requirements. Is the UK a possible source?
3. Barack Obama had a fundraising event in DC last night and I decided to go. He didn't mention telecommunications policy, but he had a lot to say about health, education, and serious US financial problems. His voice is compelling, and his law school friends say he's always been exactly like the way he is now — earnest, smart, committed, listening. The crowd was enthusiastic and asked good questions. My favorite line from Obama:
Q: How do you compare yourself to Hillary Clinton?
A: [pause] I'm taller.
Sen. Obama's presidential announcement included these words: it's time to “lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and
rural towns all across America. We can do that.” Can he carry out his plans? Will he get roughed up by the Clinton juggernaut?
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Hi Susan
I have enjoyed reading your blog today.
So much so that i have mentioned it to a couple of friends
http://www.rybinski.eu/?page_id=101&language=en
and added your blog to thoughts on
telco news in general : page vii
about post # 19
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_N/threadview?m=te&bn=36020&tid=689&mid=689&tof=1&frt=2#689
yes … i have been following the telco industry for about 3 yrs now
3 trillion dollar business …
my vision of the future is
“It is apparent that the decades immediately ahead will see the integration of telephone, television, and computer technologies into a single, unified system of communication and information, whose inexpensive appliances will be available on a mass scale.”
it is closely linked with the idea of
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the psychological and social impact of the anticipated replacement of the jumble of existing monetary systems–for many, the ultimate fortress of nationalist pride–by a single world currency operating largely through electronic impulses.”
http://info.bahai.org/article-1-7-3-1.html
something to think about … yes ?
sometimes i write on
http://www.investorsiraq.com/
https://www.kitcomm.com/index.php
the pm crowd hates me cuz i support iraqi dinar being new world currency {maybe 30 yrs out)
iraqi dinar holders hate me because i want to do away with the usd
o well … what is man suppossed to do anyway
*smile*
anyway … you asked
Do all “independent” VoIP products escape this cloud?
I hope so
“Voip Payment Services will change and revolutionize the way
wholesale minutes are bought and sold, much in the way the internet
changed the way stocks are now bought and sold online rather than
manually going through a stock broker.”
*smile*
oneness
dh