It'll never happen. Makes too much sense and removes government control by eliminating regulatory bureaucracy.

Just look at the way Congress passed the Sonny Bono act and allowing the industry to invade people's privacy by infiltrating home computers.

Amen! (to the article)

I have to agree with the previous comment, though. Stuff that makes this much sense is doomed to fail in the current climate. Escalation is the undeniable trend in society. Attempting to unwind things to a simpler, more manageable state is anethma.

I sometimes wonder why any of us were cursed with with a trait as insideous as "common sense".

"Genius lies in simplicity" -Albert Einstein
(or)
K.I.S.S. -Keep It Simple, Stupid!

(a re-assigned telco engineer)

Will VoIP be the future?

Undoubtely it will be.
But not because it means saving money on telephone calls, just because it is THE NEW WAY OF COMMUNICATION.

In the seventies a writer wouldn't have changed his type writer for a computer.
The first was much easier to use, didn't require power to work, you could carry and use it in the desert, didn't require a printer.
Computers were expensive, difficult and annoying using the programs, needed power to work and so on...

But the computer won. Now a day nobody uses type writers anymore, not even to write a letter.
As a matter of fact, few write a letter with ink and paper. Email is much better.

The same is VoIP.
It is true, the old telephone is available everywhere, doesn't need power, no software, you can easily send your voice from point A to point B.

But that is all you can do, and it is expensive too.
The Telecoms, when VoIp will be a real thread will just lower their prices and think they will get the market back.

But VoIp in spite of everything will be the winner.
Because a computer can give you what a telephone cannot.

You can send voice, but also pictures and movies.
You can have a real conference on a decent screen, you can show documents, you can send them and many other things.

It will take time, because some people are fast in embracing new technologies, some are slow, some are very slow.

But progress is something nobody can stop, not even the Big Monopolies.
It is time to throw the Telecoms' Monopolies in the dustbin of History.

Patrizia from a World on IP

patrizia@worldonip.com

http://www.worldonip.com


By the way:

The inventor of the telephone was Antonio Meucci,

Mr. Bell just managed to steal his invention in every possible way, even corrupting the Patent officers.
This isn't a nice story for the Americans, probably this is why nobody talks about it...