Telecomms: April 2007 Archives
I have an active life package from 02. This means that I am entitled to 100 txt messages per month. These txt messages only apply to messages sent to other mobile phones in the republic of Ireland. If I txt a UK number e.g twitter I have to pay 25 cent per txt message.
If I use the Internet and use 02's web interface for sending txt messages, I can send a txt msg to any international number for free.
This does not make sense! Free to use the web txting service but 25 cent if I use my phone??
It is these micro rip offs that really annoy me. I am now strongly considering changing networks.
I was delighted to here the news about the 151 jobs announced for Limerick this week. I worked in Limerick for several years and experienced the dot com boom and burst while being employed in the private sector.After the dot com bubble burst a number of my friends had to leave Limerick to find tech and sw jobs else where. For a number of years Limerick was in the doldrums from and R&D perspective, but slowly over the past 18 - 24 months it has experienced a turn around.
100 jobs with electronic payment systems software firm ACI Worldwide - R&D, software, tech support and finance.
30 jobs for Masters graduates with Rovsing - software development centre in Limerick specialising in the creation of specialist software tools for satellites and ground systems for spacecraft.
21 jobs with AR Corporate’s new European distribution headquarters - The company develops, manufactures and distributes high-power broadband radio frequency (RF) amplifiers.
Local Fianna Fail TD's are trumpeting the announcement of Tipperary towns and villages getting Broadband from Eircom. There is one important piece of information missing from their press release / vote for me message.
The vital piece of info missing is the install date. There is none. Therefore there is no commitment. Damien Mulley already covered this missing piece of vital information.
What Fianna Fail fail to grasp is that we could all have broadband if we had a scheme that encourages rural communities to be connected by independent broadband providers from the local area.
The Government i.e. Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats made a total mess of this as the community broadband scheme pays out on the number connected not on the expense of connecting isolated rural communities.
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When patents are filed and companies sued over basic packet processing and telephone features then it is time to call a stop to the madness. Vonage are being sued for 57 million dollars for the following patent infringements.
U.S. Patent 6,282,574 covers packet translation and how a service provider would encode IP packets so they can be ported over to the PSTN. It details the way addresses are processed on the domain name server by providing a name server for translating textual domain names into telephone numbers. The patent also describes how to support “name-to-address processing” on a name server based on specific parameters such as time, party or terminal making the request.
U.S. Patent 6,104,711, which Bell Atlantic filed for in 1997, covers how a carrier can support Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) features, typical in PSTN services for VoIP customers. These features include call waiting, caller ID and three-way calling. The patent maps out how the “enhanced Internet domain name server” allows the Internet to communicate with a separate AIN to support these features for VoIP customers.
The third patent -- U.S. States Patent 6,359,880, which was applied for in 1999 -- covers how public wireless and cordless Internet gateways communicate with the Internet. It falls under another business method patent that details a localized wireless gateway system.
The patent details how a local wireless gateway can be used to support VoIP calls. It describes how calls can be transferred from the Internet to a wireless gateway at a customer's location to support the call on a Wi-Fi or other public domain wireless spectrum.
Network world reviews several open source PBX's and rate them favourably. The vendors that accepted their invitation were Escaux, Fonality, Four Loop Technologies and Pingtel. All four products were built on top of Asterisk, the original open source IP PBX. The four vendors in their test demonstrated tangible improvements to existing open source IP PBX base code, especially in their efforts to facilitate installation, management and maintenance with GUIs.
