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This should not come as a suprise to anyone. Kevin Martin has always come on the Bell side of the equation. He calls it leveling the playing field. “The lack of regulatory parity between telecoms and cable is inhibiting broadband growth,” Martin says. Nearly a million new DSL users in the most recent quarter - [...]

Wired News reports that Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption program, is going to develop a similar tool for VoIP calls, and will show-off his tool that encrypts voice over internet protocol, or VOIP at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas this week. He is worried that like email, not many [...]

Business 2.0: While Qualcomm and Nokia will win big by building the infrastructure, TV-on-phones technology will create a passel of opportunities for entrepreneurs too. Some channels will broadcast standard TV, but thumb-jockeys will also enjoy interactive programs that blend television with the Web. And because small screens could abbreviate viewers’ attention spans, content providers will [...]

Business 2.0: While users seem to love the ability to post pix on the fly, the real beneficiaries will be carriers, who’ve been looking for ways to plump up their flat revenues-per-customer. Here’s why. Everyone expected camera phones to unleash a flood of photo sharing and, with it, growing demand for bandwidth. But that didn’t [...]

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau announced a 30-day extension of its new rules governing enhanced 911 (E911) capability by VoIP providers. The Bureau has determined that it will not initiate enforcement action, until August 30, 2005, against any provider of interconnected VoIP service regarding the requirement that it obtain affirmative acknowledgement by every existing subscriber on [...]

Some folks over at the Skype forums are complaining that that their “contacts constantly going on and offline.” There have been some grumbling about other minor issues in the latest release of Skype. No such problems for me so far!