Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com and co-founder of Free World Dialup, Vonage, and Zula. Pulver has been called a Voice over Internet Protocol pioneer, and has written extensively on VoIP telephony, and the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of its applications layer...
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is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.
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Replacing traditional phone service has been done. Now, it's time to utilize the real power of IP communications by providing organizations with capabilities that they can customize for any application in any environment. This is a good example of how the communications industry and computing industry are colliding.
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Major media and Internet companies will announce blended, transformational IP-based communications plays.
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LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.
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H.R. 1542 will lead to higher prices for telecom consumers and even slower deployment of advanced services,
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The industry is in its infancy. We still have yet to see interoperability, and we still have yet to see the promise (of IP telephony). To regulate it at this point could stifle the growth.
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Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.
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We're asking to be levied at a time and place that makes sense.
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What most employees do not realize is that corporate rebates and incentives are enacted when the employee population reaches thresholds outlined in their vendor contracts. Meaning, while an employee thinks the actual cost of his or her airline ticket is $500, the actual cost may be much less. And in most cases preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize an entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on non-performance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.