Ok… so we haven’t had the best of luck with Sprint (see here, and here) and while our company is slowly moving toward AT&T due to “some device” that came out in the last few months, I do have to hand it to Sprint for be one of the first companies to actually release a…
It seems that directory assistance (411) is getting more expensive every year. Cell and local carriers continue to charge more and more – all while more and more Internet sites offer it for free. The good news for carriers is that people continue to use it, to the tune of 6 billion directory assistance calls…
With the news that SBC is buying AT&T and Verizon and MCI merging again, the rolling back of regulation in the telco industry continues apace. Check out the AT&T breakup on wikipedia, which has a rather hilarious disclaimer at the moment: This article has recently been linked from Slashdot. Please keep an eye on the…
Broadband news posts an interesting article about the potential for incumbent telcos to purposefully deteriorate the quality of VOIP over their circuits to better compete. The full story is here.
Eweek takes a fascinating look at how the Red Cross is using VoIP telephony from VSATs in the field in lieu of a functional infrastructure to communicate. Pretty awesome technology and a good indicator how technology really can make a difference.
Jim Baller of The Baller Herbst Law Group is the attorney representing both the municipalities that were targeted by a study by the Heartland Institute that aimed to show that municipal wireless/ISPs were a losing proposition. They have fought back against the studies claims, citing “mistakes, misinterpretations, unsupported and insupportable claims, irrelevancies, innuendos, key omissions…
As evidence that not all technology problems are glamorous and hard-to-understand, we have the recent outage in New Zealand that appears to have possibly been the result of rats chewing through the cable. They really ought to stop making the cable conduits out of cheese.
Linksys is running a promotion along with Vonage which looks to be a pretty good deal, if you’ve been wanting to try out Vonage’s service anyway: Vonage and router-manufacturer Linksys have partnered to create what they hope will be an offer customers can’t refuse. Starting on June 12, and for six weeks after, consumers will…
A good article over at Techrepublic focuses on the narrowing bandwidth crunch many businesses are feeling: As e-mail worms like the resilient Sober variants spread, they consume a lot of bandwidth and computing resources. However, it really doesn’t take much worm traffic to disable e-mail services for an entire company, especially if that organization is…
Chris previously posted on a mock trial for ISP’s that weren’t doing enough to protect their users. Their argument is that its a slippery slope – which can be construed as ‘no argument’ at all. However the slippery slope (in this case, IMHO) is actually a good argument. That argument represents the true issue at…
