VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol:
Instructor Comments 4/28
- Explaining the rise and fall of Vonage would be a good way to describe what's going on in the VoIP industry
- 2006 article about Verizon starting a price war with Vonage
- Your presentation should try to anticipate the questions in the audience's minds. Here are some of my questions:
- Why is Vonage getting killed right now?
- I heard that eBay owns Skype but is thinking of selling it, possibly to Google, because it's not performing well. What's going on?
- What's happening with IP and cellphones? Doesn't T-mobile have a cellphone that works over wi-fi when you're at home?
- Is it true that the big phone companies are all planning to switch over to IP to reduce their own costs?
- Also make sure you are up to date on the latest news. Just do a search on the New York Times site and maybe one or two others. Here's an article from 4/21/08 on a new international calling plan being introduced by Skype
- TMC.net is a source of VoIP news RDS
- http://www.voip-news.com/
- Expect VoIP to have a big impact on telecommunications companies
Homework 9 is an individual assignment related to the group project - due 4/21/08 6:30 pm. This requires research, so best to start early.
Group Project Info from Class Wiki
- Content Guidelines
- Suggestions for getting started
- Updated suggested sources
You can find PDFs of our presentation here
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