Tag archive: telephone

Not satisfied by just dominating most of the world, Google continues to expand into every possible field that a human being might use to gain or transmit information. Google has a strong hold on the e-mail market, the search engine is the number one website in the world, Google TV is on the way and now Google has its eyes on the Internet telephone field currently dominated by Skype. If you have an email account with Gmail, you may have noticed… Read More

In a December 21 filing with the Federal Communications Commission (PDF), telecommunications giant AT&T has asked the government to set a firm deadline for the decommissioning of the nation's existing copper-based landline telephone network, calling the system a “relic of a by-gone era.” AT&T wants to move to broadband, VoIP-based services and unburden itself from decades of regulation surrounding landline telephone… Read More

Your landline phone is the last thing in your home that should look complicated. Take a cue from Danish design house, Jacob Jensen, with their Telephone 10. The phone's got all the bells and whistles and even features a baby monitor. At the moment the phone is only available in Europe though we imagine a US version is in the cars as with their previous phone models. Link

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released preliminary results from the National Health Interview Survey taken from July through December 2007. The survey is primarily intended to confidentially gather health-related information from the non-institutionalized U.S. civilian population as a data source to guide public health and policy decision-making. Over the years, the survey has asked participants whether they can… Read More

It's official: new legislation signed by President Bush makes pretexting—the practice of obtaining a person's phone records under false pretenses—a federal offense. The Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006 criminalizes making false statements or presenting false documents to a telephone service operator in an attempt to gain access to a third party's personal telephone records. The new loaw also… Read More

A new market forecast by Ireland's Research and Markets predicts nearly 40 percent of broadband-enabled households in the United States

The Federal Communications Commission today eliminated facilities-sharing requirements on telephone companies providing broadband Internet service, meaning that by August 2006, telephone companies providing broadband via DSL or other technologies will no longer have to offer competitors discounted access to their telephone networks. The FCC's new Republican Chairman Kevin Martin put off the FCC's meeting by a day to extend… Read More

Quote from the review at TechwareLabs: “Over the past year or so voice-over IP telephone services have been becoming a more attractive alternative to plain old telephone service. With VOIP users can enjoy low costs and features that normal telephone carriers will never be able to offer. The best part: You can even use your current analog telephone as VOIP phones.” Read the full review here Read Designtechnica's review… Read More

This week the FCC announced its decision that traditional telephone calls that start and end on the public switched telephone network (PSTN), but are carried part of the time on AT&T's Internet backbone, are classified as telecommunications service. Those calls are subject to the access charges that are exchanged when a telephone call made through one carrier ends on another carrier's network. Read more at PCWorld.

The Federal Communications Commission said it would decide how to regulate calls made via high-speed Internet connections, which bypass at least part of the conventional phone network. Among the issues to be discussed is whether such calls should be subject to the same fees as regular telephone service, such for 911 emergency services or bringing telephone service to poor and rural areas, schools and libraries. Also to be decided is… Read More