{"id":160,"date":"2005-04-28T22:08:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2007-02-02T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T08:39:11","slug":"voip-is-exciting-technology-28thapril2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/04\/voip-is-exciting-technology-28thapril2005\/","title":{"rendered":"VoIP is exciting technology (28th\/April\/2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited about <acronym title=\"Voice over IP\">VoIP<\/acronym> technology &#8211; It&#8217;s going to change the whole telephony business-model. There are a number of killer-apps for each element of technology, email is a killer-app (even my mum now uses it), Wi-Fi is an up and coming killer-app and I think that VoIP will become a killer-app. I don&#8217;t understand how BT are going to compete with a potentially free method of talking (assuming an open-source VoIP software-suite will emerge). The only things that let the telephone-providers have control are:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Skype Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Computing\/skype_Logo.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Not open-source<\/i> \ud83d\ude41\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>People will need an ISP<\/li>\n<li>People will need to rent a physical Internet connection (i.e. ADSL phoneline, cable, satellite, Power of Electricity cable).<\/li>\n<li>People will need a telephone number<\/li>\n<li>People will need to be able to reach an emergency number (999)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The 3rd point is debatable. My mum will need a telephone number but if two people with VoIP want to talk to each other, they can use each others usernames to set up a call without needing a telephone number. Imagine using a Wi-Fi PDA as a phone around our house? and when Wi-Fi is available everywhere, mobiles could be replaced by VoIP enabled PDA&#8217;s. The phone would be redundant, power to the computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited about VoIP technology &#8211; It&#8217;s going to change the whole telephony business-model. There are a number of killer-apps for each element of technology, email is a killer-app (even my mum now uses it), Wi-Fi is an up and coming killer-app and I think that VoIP will become a killer-app. I don&#8217;t understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}