Dan Muchnok

Plain Old Telephone Service In the All-Internet World

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According to this article from Arstechnica.com, an Astroturf group is pushing an AT&T agenda to deregulate telecom business as consumers now rely much more on the use of smart wireless devices, cellphones, wired Internet-enabled VoIP services, and over-the-top Internet-enabled applications, than traditional plain-old-telephony service (POTS). AT&T says that century-old rules designed to spread phone service to all […]

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Technology Planning Matters a Lot to Nonprofits

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Technology can be a large investment for a nonprofit – but it can also be a significant cost savings if you plan it well. Regarding The Techsoup blog’s article, What’s Involved in Technology Planning, technology planning can benefit nonprofit businesses by leveraging their limited resources. While technology continues changing quickly, the nonprofit business is trying

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Another Development in the End of the Telephone

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Last week, Facebook added the capability to make Voice over IP (VoIP) calls to its Messenger App for the iPhone. Using this feature, iPhone Facebook users can now make free calls to other Facebook users using a data or Wi-Fi connection. What makes this interesting, and another step in the direction of the end of

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The Telephone Network is Dead, Or at Least Obsolete

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We’ve talked about the possibility of an all-IP telecom network before, but the move to total IP telephony is starting to gain some traction. Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the FCC to allow it to kill the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in favor of an all-IP network. Although the technology behind the PSTN is

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