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[The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations] These days most Voice over Broadband service providers are more focused on using VoIP to deliver “replacement and substitute” of PSTN services rather than innovate on the platform and deliver to consumers services that were never before practical or possible using the older TDM based PSTN. These service providers have chosen to ignore the fact that on the broadband internet “Voice is just an Application.” It turns out many of the Voice over Broadband companies operating in 2006 are in effect playing in the game of arbitrage, except instead of arbitraging long distance termination which was common place in the late 90’s, they are arbitraging local phone service.

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[Mocaedu.com] Aswath Weblog: September 2004 Archives: So it seems: “As VOIP services have quickly become commoditized, even before they’re fully available, marketing, branding, and price will be among the key differentiators of consumer and business VOIP providers. “Based on the wide array of new entrants into the VOIP space, from cable operators to telephony behemoths, consumers will be overwhelmed by their choices.

http://voipandenum.blogspot.com [Voipandenum.blogspot.com] VoIP and ENUM: The reason is that if the tipping point is reached and more people will be connected to broadband, the PSTN will die very quickly. One should not forget that in Europe mobile penetration is reaching already 100%, which implies that every person has at least one broadband access capability.

[Andyabramson.blogs.com] VoIP Watch: Dialpad Part of Yahoo?: Dialpad provides Yahoo immediately with a proven platform that delivers least cost routing, the Dialpad engine that routes international traffic and enables termination plus gives them the billing, OSS and capability to make a Pre-Paid offering that terminates and possibly originates PSTN calling. Clearly this means Yahoo is going after the international audience and is looking to go right after Skype.

http://gigaom.com [GigaOM] End of VoIP as we know it: I’ve always found it unfortunate that too many people associated VoIP with PSTN long distance arbitrage. Frankly, the economic advantage and ability to arbitrage has been like heroin to many in the VoIP community keeping us from realizing our true potential while we collect revenue by arbitraging against the PSTN pricing umbrella.

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