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I definitely admire their courage. Whether or not you agree with their philosophy, it does represent what disruption should be about imho. On another note, the revenue model of dig…

I took it a step further and just use my home phone now. Not necessarily to escape any sort of addiction or privacy issues of feature phones (though the latter does cross my mind o…

So I'm going to ask a question which on it's surface, might seem a little crazy, but give it some thought: How long do you think it'll be before a considerable part of the populati…

So what happens if an EU country sees a BGP routing error that sends traffic to the US?

You forgot about the cyber military!

As far as cable companies go, they're kinda low on the telephony totem pole anyway. Probably best to ditch them and go with AT&T/Frontier/whoever your local phone company is.

All and all, it's just another sign that the internet is becoming less a tool of individual communication or expression, and more an impression of cable TV. Besides, y'know, all th…

No kidding :/ . If anything, there should really be a movement to get people to migrate off of it more and more.

Heh! Bubble much?

Isn't "pay once for lifetime service" by definition a Ponzi scheme?

> Most carrier backbones have been all-IP for years. Pretty sure end-to-end circuit switched calls are atypical nowadays, although I'm happy to be proven wrong. That certainly depe…

> Why would you use an HD codec to transcode to G711? Call on any direction can sound only as good as G711. The idea is to use the timeslot g.711 normally would sit in to transport…

> Digital voice services, which are basically VoIP You say that as if things like GR-303 and ISDN BRIs/PRIs don't exist. The only thing that isn't digital about modern, non-IP phon…

> Really? The last time I sent a fax was 2006. You're clearly missing the point here. T.38 and RFC-2833 largely exist because there's many, many voip routes that can't transport lo…

You clearly haven't made any PSTN calls on Skype. If you're looking for higher sample rates, it's relatively easy to use a B channel to transport g.722, or even bond a couple toget…

Maybe with dedicated fiber links that carry no other traffic, sure. But the vast, vast majority of voip routes tend not to measure up to their circuit switched counterparts. Why do…

Right, because voip has a reputation for sounding great and being reliable. (/s)

I saw an article today, and it made me think right away of this whole mess; http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2015/05/04/report-facebook-to...