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  • Jul
  • 02
  • 2008

Verizon: “Steve Jobs Has No Monopoly on Innovations”

Verizon’s chief Ivan Seidenberg reveals interesting details about plans to leapfrog AT&T to become the largest wireless carrier in the US. In a rare interview Seidenberg commented on rumors that Verizon is up for a sale and fired a couple of jealous shots at Steve Jobs.

Although 80 percent of the US population now owns a mobile phone, Seidenberg says wireless carriers have discovered a new revenue stream in form of high-volume data traffic over the cell network for email and web surfing activities popularized…

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  • Apr
  • 18
  • 2008

Why the U.S. cellphone system is un-American

Any TV you buy will work with any cable or satellite TV service you have. Any PC you buy, even a Mac, will work with any Internet service provider you use. Any landline phone, wired or cordless, will work any phone company’s landline service. So can you buy any cellphone you want regardless of who your carrier is? Of course. Unless you live in USA

I don't know that I agree that this piece is so dumb. Lots of phones that I seem to be attracted to (smartphones that are not so crackberry in appearance - decent processing power, features, multiple uses) aren't offered on…

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  • Apr
  • 09
  • 2008

An Open Source Class-Five Telephony Switch

Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks.

FreeSwitch will most likely shine on the backend. One application will be to help business reduce calling costs by directing calls to the cheapest carrier. Ken Rice, a voice consultant and owner of tollfreegateway.com, a voice termination service,…

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