Archive for: March 2005

My recent blog entry on the Skype ATA got a comment that is worth responding to in it’s own right:

So you’re referring to Andy who referred to James who referred to said piece? No offense, but it …

The Universal Service Fund (USF) was something cooked up by the US Government to make telecommunications affordable to everyone. This is a fine goal that I am all for. There are a couple of different problems with the USF today: …

The whole point of online customer service is: you can get what you want done whenever you want to do it. Unfortunately, with Qwest, that seems to be not possible.

Qwest has a reasonable site where you can see …

After spending a day or so upgrading my Gentoo box to the new spiffy KDE 3.4, I decided to give Skype a try again. Lo, and behold, it worked. For good measure, I also upgraded Skype on Linux to the …

Today, my line qualification for DSL came in positive. Finally, it took Qwest forever to actually get it right. Shortly after the tech arrived to validate it, I could order DSL on qwest.com, but I opted to call in due …

According to a couple of news stories, Cingular has over 50 million subscribers. Talk about raising the bar. That’s one hell of a mobile-to-mobile calling family.

Meanwhile, Om points out that, mobile phone growth will slow. …

Andy referred to James Enck who referred to this little piece on the ActionTec Internet Phone Wizard. Not impressed.

I basically already have the ability to use a cordless phone with a little device called the …

My wife and I had been talking about getting a new house for a while. We are outgrowing the existing house. If we have another kid, we will definitely be busting at the seams. Today, in fact, we cleared out …

Someone called me an “expert” today when it came to VoIP. I don’t know if I’d go that far. Certainly, I know a few things and don’t mind sharing what I know. I know where to look and who to …

Since Skype decided to release the “beta” for their SkypeIn service, which gives you both an inbound PSTN number for your Skype account and voicemail (which is also available seperately), I figured it’d be a good time to give Skype …