[Telephony] Re: [discuss] VoIP Services

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2004-04-05 21:19-0700 Alex Randell wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> >could you give a quick overview of why an ITSP is necessary at all?
> >
> An ITSP is necessary for connecting to people with plain ordinary
> telephone service (POTS) -either long distance or locally.
>
> >For example, why cannot two Linux boxes audio-connect with each other over
> >the internet without any special hardware other than a sound card and
> >headset?
> >
> They absolutely can - Speak Freely is one of many programs which allow
> this. There are also services like freeworlddialup.com which enumerate
> you so others can contact you via internet using an alias number (much
> like a phone number) rather than having to know your IP address, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> P.S. I will be directing future discussion on VoIP to the the new
> telephony list which I will be announcing.. immediately :-)

Thanks for the reply, and I hope the new telephony list is a great success.
I probably won't be saying much there at first except for this essentially
test message, but I will be lurking to gain some knowledge of this
interesting topic.

Alan
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