Subject: [Free World Dialup]: Internet Telephony SHOULD NOT Be
Regulated
Sender: owner-free-world-dialup@Pulver.COM
>From the January 22, 1998 issue of: The Pulver Report
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Internet Telephony Should not be Regulated - The EU made the right
Decision.
The European Union recently announced that they felt that Internet
Telephony should not be regulated. This is good news. However due to
the continued hype and hysteria by some in the media about the
potential harm to certain PTTs - Internet Telephony has become illegal
in countries like India and something should be done about this.
On the open Internet - the majority of Internet Telephony use remains
in the hands of hobbyists. These users pose no threat to anybody and
should continue to be allowed to use PC to PC telephony.
If there are some people operating Telecom businesses where they are
terminating with data circuits instead of voice circuits just to avoid
paying the access charges in a certain country - one word of advice -
make as much money as you can now - since this loophole will be closed
in the near future.
I first heard about India attempting to regulate the IP Voice market a
few months ago when the Indian marketplace was deregulated. These
days ISPs in India do not have the ability to connect PSTN/IP Gateways.
Friends of mine have reported that actual PC based Internet Telephony
usage in India is also illegal. This I feel is a decision that was
made in part by somebody in the Indian Government who clearly did not
know about all of the issues and technologies surrounding IP Voice.
In 1996 when I founded the Voice on the Net Coalition we were able to
find a common ground to work with both ACTA and the FCC. While the
ACTA Petition has yet to be acted upon, there are now open lines of
communication between all parties and I hope that with continued
pressure nobody in Washington, D.C. will be making UNinformed
decisions.
The same can not be said about the possibilities of International
Regulation of Internet Telephony.
Now is the time for the VON Coalition to go Global.
If there are companies which have a vested interest in this space who
can make a commitment to help establish open dialogs with Government
Agencies around the world please let me know. I'm willing to spend
some of my time meeting with other Government Agencies - but we need to
be able to scale.
Now is NOT the time for the industry to sit idle - doing so will
threaten the future use for the International Internet Community to
use IP Voice products.
Best Regards,
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Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 6 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 21, 1998 (11:47) * 19 lines
Here are, in general, the best apps for communicating over the net (not just
videoconferencing in some cases) in order of effectiveness and
overall
quality:
Iphone 5.01 ftp://ftp.vocaltec.com/pub/iphone/iphone50.exe
WebPhone ftp://ftp.netspeak.com/pub/wpsetup.exe
VDOPhone ftp://ftp.vdo.net/vdptrial.exe
NetMeeting http://mssjus3.www.conxion.com/msdownload/netmeeting/Nm21.exe
OnLive! Traveler http://www.onlive.com/cgi-bin/travreg.cgi
PowWow32 ftp://ftp.powwow.com/powwow36.exe
PhoneFerret ftp://ferret.aitcom.net/pub/ferret/PFT111.exe
Virtual Places http://download.vplaces.com/clients/VP32r21.exe
Active Worlds http://aw.mpl.net/downloads/awb.exe
Speak Freely http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/windows/speakfb.zip
WinTalk ftp://ftp.elf.com/pub/wintalk/wtalk127.zip
VoxPhone ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/Windows95/tx32v20.exe
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 7 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Sat, Aug 28, 1999 (14:38) * 4 lines
My son and I communicate with WebPhone, and I recommend it highly. It also
has the feature of a notepad if you are having trouble on one end which the
other end is not aware of...pop up your note pad and tell them you are
having a mic problem or you cannot hear them...whatever.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 8 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (09:05) * 2 lines
Have you tried any other of these communication apps?
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 9 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (10:44) * 4 lines
Like, for example, NetMeeting. That's what I'm trying to get my sister to
use.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 10 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Mon, Sep 6, 1999 (20:37) * 1 lines
I have not simply because he had this setup in place. I am not aware of anyone using NerMeeting, butI will ask David if he know anything about .
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 11 of 27: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Sep 6, 1999 (20:43) * 1 lines
...make that NetMeeting...shall ask about it.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 12 of 27: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Sep 7, 1999 (17:31) * 7 lines
Asked my son David about NetMeeting. His response:
"NetMeeting works pretty well. I tried it with a couple people
and it is the standard conferencing tool for IT Corp. I just happen to like
Webphone better and I already paid for it. "
IT Corp is the company he works for.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 13 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (00:17) * 5 lines
That's what I have. I've had a few good exchanges with it, but it's been
a while. Too bad these programs can't talk to each other. It's a
polyglot world when it comes to comm programs, isn't it?
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 14 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (00:48) * 1 lines
Most unfortuantely, I think it is "buy mine and talk only to me." Otherwise we could actually hear each other! THAT would be really cool!
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 15 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (08:32) * 4 lines
Tres cool. What's your contact information in your communicaitons
program? You know, like your icq id or whatever.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 16 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (15:02) * 1 lines
I use Instant Messages for Non-AOL users and my WebPhone uses my email address for my contact number. I had an ICQ # but it was so poorly explained I never did use it. Will send you for information by email as there are those I do not need to have it right now...
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 17 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (15:33) * 3 lines
Understand.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 18 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (15:52) * 2 lines
Anyone desiring to download or information on Instant Messages for non-Aol users
http://www.aim.aol.com/netscape/whatis.html
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 19 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (23:31) * 1 lines
Terry did I ever send you the information on ICQ you requested? I cannot remember doing so, and If I did not, I shall if you are still interested. I believe it was about my ICQ number...
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 20 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (08:11) * 3 lines
Sure, we also have a topic somewhere for posting your icq number, maybe we
should open one in inner. A topic like "Contact information, icq number
etc."
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 21 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (12:51) * 1 lines
That is probably a better place to reveal such information than out here on the public topics. The only one I have at present other than my own is Nan's, so I can put that there, as well.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 22 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (12:55) * 1 lines
I also have an Instant Messaging program for which I do not wish the public to know my screen name. That would also fit into your parameters. I think that would really be a good idea to have all of the ways to communicate with each other in times of need. When You have time, of course, or I could do so...?!
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 23 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (08:48) * 2 lines
Of course you could.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 24 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (13:07) * 1 lines
Did *grin*
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 25 of 27: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (00:44) * 1 lines
I know you have been terribly busy of late, but did you ever set your sister up with a communications application? If so, which one did you choose?
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 26 of 27: (sprin5) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (08:11) * 1 lines
Not yet, she's got a new computer and I'd like to see her get set up with NetMeeting. ou know, sometimes, I just turn on the webcam live in my office and talk to folks that way. They get on icq and I get on the webcam with audio. I've got my notebook working as a mobile webcam now, using Roadrunner in my office.
Topic 28 of 40 [internet]: Communications Clients
Response 27 of 27: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (12:17) * 1 lines
You must do that when I am not around. I'd love to do that...! But, first, I'd have to learn to use my ICQ program. When you wrote this, it was 3AM here.
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