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Time for Personal & Persistent Numbers
$229,500 is an awfully expensive wrong number. As has been widely reported, a Manhattan federal judge fined Time-Warner $1,500 for each of Time-Warner’s 153 unwanted calls to Araceli King resulting in the aforementioned hefty fine. Time-Warner’s Interactive Voice Response (e.g. robo-calling) system was calling the correct phone number. Unfortunately, for Time-Warner, that number was no longer…
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IP – Innovation in Phones – A Simple Safety Phone
The transition of the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to IP (Internet Protocol) is about innovation as much as it about the change of telecommunications’ protocol. Ooma’s CEO Eric Stang provides a sneak peek of the sort of innovation unleashed by IP, as he discusses Ooma’s soon-to-be-released, two-button, IP phone. The intent of this product…
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Solarus at IP Possibilities 2009
Bill Albertson of Badger Communications discusses the Solarus VoIP Long distance voice service. He explains how telcos are using this service to lower costs, as well as package voice into profitable bundles.