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[Realtime-VoIP: The VoIP Community Weblog] Rather than elaborate in depth, I'm going to share the following email from Jonathin Askin, General Counsel and pulver.com. Those of us who know and read Jeff Pulver know he's a great advocate for the Internet, VoIP, IPTV, and in general moving the Internet to what it will become for the next generation.

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http://ipadventures.com [Digital Common Sense] Contest to “Save the Internet”: In any event, if you haven’t watched television in DC lately, you might not be aware that the Bell companies, the cable companies and the media conglomerates have launched multi-million dollar ad campaigns to win the hearts and minds of Congress as it rewrites the communications laws and sets the rules that will govern the future of the open Internet. They each claim to speak for the Internet and that, if Congress acts appropriately, the future of the Internet will be assured and protected.

http://www.voipafriend.com [VoIP You] The Battle for Neutrality Rages On: “Companies selling Internet access argue for property rights as the basis for unwinding long standing net neutrality. However, the companies deriving revenues from Internet access do not own the Internet any more than a company making money from a port owns the ocean…Net neutrality prevents discrimination by limiting billing for transport to generic measures of performance and capacity rather than the nature of the user or usage.

[voip] Permanent link to: Posted in Voip on April 20th, 2006 New Study Highlights the Economic Benefits of VoIP Using Verilink 8000 Series IAD as Benchmark The report, entitled “Economic Impact on T1 Infrastructure of VoIP-enabled IAD,” uses Verilink’s 8000 Series IAD as a benchmark in examining the benefits of VoIP-enabled IADs and explores four primary areas, ”¦ Is

[The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations] Guest Blogger: Daniel Berninger - "Net... : The track record of communication policy apparatus in serving corporate interests over the public interest underlies a sadly compelling argument against making net neutrality rules enforceable. Ironically, government facilitated the accumulation of Bell company market power by granting risk free funding of infrastructure through exclusive monopoly, priceless unconstrained access to public rights-of-way, as well as, no cost spectrum to launch wireless divisions in the 80's.

http://www.voipafriend.com [VoIP You] A Tale of Two VoIPs: The other side of VoIP has more to do with helping those in need than helping people get a date. Jeff Pulver’s blog and Tom Evslin’s Fractals of Change focused on the very serious role that VoIP and other telecommunications technology can play in times of crisis, and O’Reilly Emerging Telephony recently reported that, “Craig Walker’s latest venture is helping out some of the most disadvantaged in our society as his new company Grand Central has started offering free voice mailboxes to the homeless in San Francisco.”

[The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations] VON Europe Spring 2006: Less than One Month... : To date, there are delegates registered from 45 countries including: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hong Kong, Hungry, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, USA

[Andyabramson.blogs.com] VoIP Watch: Lastly, their only real big spending threats, AT&T and AOL, both have gone to ground with their marketing of VoIP, leaving the roadway open to Earthlink, SunRocket, Packet 8 and Broadvoice and then a cast of small players, most of whom could be rolled up by Vonage very quickly. While Earthlink is a potential threat, their current focus makes them a looming one, not an actual day to day assassin.

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