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November 05, 2005
This week in my corner of the Blogosphere:
On Monday I woke up looking for Aristotle and for answers regarding the FCC's approach in Deregulating Telecom Services and Regulating Information Services. It's now Saturday and I'm still looking for answers...
On Tuesday I finally had it with the growing "Voice 2.0" hype and felt compelled to share my realization that Voice 2.0 is PURPLE.
And then on the heals of the approval of the SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI mergers, I couldn't believe the "Freerider" remarks directly attributed to Ed Whitacre.
On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee sent a 9-1-1 message to the FCC when they UNANIMOUSLY approved S. 1063, the "E9-1-1 Improvement Act." Kudos to Jim Kohlenberger and the VON Coalition for their contributions to this bill.
On Thursday the Internet Voice Coalition, a working group of the VON Coalition launched a campaign to help educate consumers about VoIP. News about these efforts was picked up by some of the trade press including: America's Network, New Telephony, Computer Business Review, PC Pro, CNET and well as BusinessWeek and the International Herald Tribune and the UPI.
A special highlight of the week for me was the time spent at the 2005 Marconi Society Dinner Gala.
Cities visited this week included: Boston, NYC (twice), Philidelphia, Toronto.
Blog posts of note:
- Guy Kewney: Purple Minutes, and other good causes
- Tom Evslin: Bubble 2.0 – Why Walls Come Down
- Marc Cantor: Breaking the Web Wide Open
Tags: voip, purple minutes, fcc, jeff pulver
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Posted by jeff on November 5, 2005 04:49 PM | Permalink
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Comments
Jeff:
I'm sure glad that we have enlightened people like you out there trying to keep the FCC and Congress straight. Otherwise, we would be subject to the world according to people like Ed Whitacre. He drives home my point about why we need to stop worrying about pipes.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy poker schedule.
Mark
Posted by: Mark Milliman at November 7, 2005 01:22 AM