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Back in the early days of telephony, the phone company was the arbiter of what telephones you could hook up to the network. That meant only a few models of phones were available–in whatever color they wanted to sell it in. In the early part of the 20th century, the phones were black, [...]

About 9 months ago, I moved from the 360 area code to the 253 area code. It meant a lot of changes for our household. Every aspect of our utilities and fixed telecommunications changed. With the exception of gas service, every connection was with a different, unrelated company from the one before. It also meant [...]

The folks over at the VoIP Supply blog have asked a rather important question–at least for a service provider such as voip.com–is the VoIP industry growing or shrinking? The numbers show some pretty clear trends:

Number of landlines are decreasing: The three biggest local exchange carriers–AT&T, Verizon and Qwest—have lost 17.3 million residential telephone lines in [...]

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine wrote an article that answers the question: how many voice over IP calls can you realistically have over a standard WiFi access point? The answer actually depends on a number of factors, and the article can give you an answer depending on the exact deployment. Here [...]

People outside the U.S. and Canada find it odd that we pay for both incoming and outgoing calls on our mobile phones. Conversely, we find it odd that it costs, say, 1.6 cents a minute to call a U.K. landline using voip.com’s low rates, but it can cost up to 33.5 cents a minute to [...]

There has been a lot of controversy around the topic of using mobile phones on an airplane. The objections raised include interference with aviation equipment, problems with the terrestrial mobile phone networks when using your handset in the air, and simply annoying your fellow passengers. Here’s the skinny on each of these points:

Interference With Aviation [...]

One of the fundamental tenets of the Bell System that survives today is the concept that local calls are free. What’s local? The rough guideline I remember was “anything within a 12 mile radius.” In some cases, particularly in more rural locations, local calls may cover a wider area, sometimes at a higher local line [...]

It’s funny that we still use the phrase dialing the phone when most people under the age of 30 have never used a dial telephone. I was using rotary phones well into high school. If you’ve never used one of these phones, this instructional movie short from 1927 should help:

Back then, you typically only dialed [...]

Welcome to the 4th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 10 good posts for this edition. I hope our readers will enjoy these. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Beno Varghese presents Google Sucks (Maps) posted at Beno Varghese dot-com. Beno says, “Every time I get directions to a [...]

Greetings! Welcome to the 5th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 12 posts for this edition. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Jimson Lee presents 10 Reasons Why I Love Google posted at Speedendurance.com.  A great read for any start-up, club, group, or organization to collaborate and be more [...]