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Fall VON

August 11, 2005

Fall VON is coming up in Boston. My partner Howard and I are heading there to meet potential carrier partners, and equipment vendors. In addition, I’ll be moderating a bull session with Cable Service Providers, and Howard will be moderating a session titled The New Age of Softphones.

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Cable consortium?

April 13, 2004

From Light Reading: Cable Cadre Talks VOIP (Light Reading). This, of course, is massive news. Cable networks, coast to coast, in a cooperative VoIP network. It’s the moral, if not technical, equivalent of the old regional bells model, with Neustar in the role that AT&T held. Plus ça change, plus cest la mème.

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Net2Phone 2 Franchise

November 25, 2003

Interesting. I wonder how many cableco’s will fork over 90% of voice revenues to Net2Phone. VoIP firm Net2Phone starts franchise effort. The Net-phoning company says it has raised $63 million to bankroll a franchise program designed to make it easy for cable service providers to offer voice over Internet Protocol plans.

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FCC: Every TV Must Have a Digital Tuner

August 9, 2002

The F.C.C. Has Voted: A Digital Tuner for Every TV. The television industry, and the television manufacturers are complaining that this will add $250 or more to the cost of a set. I guess I just don’t believe it. Short term it might be expensive, but short term digital satellite receivers were expensive as well. [...]

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