I think Om Malik is very on target in his recent summation of the state of the voice industry, republished on BusinessWeek online. With the US wireless biggies finally conceding weakly justified defenses to mobile VoIP apps, it appears to be a major milestone in the 15 year slog towards the “death of distance. ” Its nearly to the stage , where just about everyone in the industry views voice as a commodity and gear their business models towards value added applications built around free voice and flat rate broadband plans.
Interestingly, Malik goes to the next step to briefly reference the implied business and technology drivers for voice peering , stopping short of the drivers for multi-lateral vs. private interconnection approaches. After helping guide XConnect for its first three years when peering was rarely discussed in public outside of 8:00 AM conference sessions on day 2 for an audience that barely outnumbered the panel; its nice to see the theme of Free Voice and Peering written in the same keystrokes.
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