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Namibia is the latest nation to go absolutely convulsive over the prospect of some of its citizens bypassing the local phone monopoly by selling and using VoIP. Five people have been busted. Mike at TechDirt has the story.Then, as Mike also points out, there was a bust two years ago in Belarus, and there's an [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on September 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Cablevision has announced Optimum Voice World Call, a new VoIP calling plan that will let users make 500 minutes of calls to anywhere in the world for a flat rate of $19.95 a month.If I am Skype or Vonage, I am very worried- not only because of the strategy but because of who is executing [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on May 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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For the last few months, VoIP users in Belize have been up in arms at what they perceive to be an organized effort by Belize Telecommunications Limited to block outgoing calls over Vonage, Skype and other Internet phone service providers.Online forums have bristled with frustrated posts. The Vonage Forum has a busy thread on the [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on April 24th, 2006 with no comments.
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Skype has admitted that its Chinese partner company Tom Online - which doesn't yet offer SkypeOut by the way- is censoring some Skype text messages."Tom had implemented a text filter, which is what everyone else in that market is doing," Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom tells the U.K.-based Financial Times business newspaper. "Those are the regulations."As [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on April 19th, 2006 with no comments.
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The big telecom and cable behemoths would love to charge high bandwidth services extra for fast service. One variation of this proposal would offer these services under a tiered rate structure where you would pay more money for preferential bandwidth. That's what Shaw Communications wants to do. Despite the cries of many (including yours truly) [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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On Tuesday, I reported that Vonage Canada filed a complaint with the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) about broadband cable Internet access provider Shaw Communications' $10 Quality of Service Enhancement fee pitched to their subscribers as a voluntary plan to ensure quality of service for Vonage and other third-party content providers and services.Vonage [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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On that Google Earth grab, my cursor is pointing to Nanaimo, B.C. Google Earth's direction finder is pointing to Birmingham, Alabama. The two cities are really, really far from each other, you know, eh? You cannot fly directly between the two cities without two plane changes- one in Seattle (off a turboprop connection, the other [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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That's the formula for sarin, a deadly gas said to be a favorite of terrorists. So let us say you have a terrorist in Amman, Jordan talking to a compatriot in Hamburg who has a line on some guy who trades in deadly chemicals, toxins, or naughty biowarfare agents.And let us say they then dial up [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 16th, 2006 with no comments.
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