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By Doug Mohney, on July 29th, 2010 Tweet
I’m headed out to Las Vegas for DEFCON 18. To get the whole Jeff Pulver “Living in the State of Now” experience, I’ve got my Sprint HTC EVO fired up, GPS radio “on” and logged into FourSquare.
Once I hit the ground, I’ll fire up the WiMAX 4G phone in the EVO. As [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 5th, 2009 Tweet
Jeff Pulver goes into his back yard to discuss the promise and potential of HD Communications in a 3 minute, 48 second YouTube video.
The video arrives as Pulver and partner Dan Berninger have finalized plans for the September 15, 2009 HD Communications event in New York City.
By Doug Mohney, on July 14th, 2009 Tweet
The day started at 8 AM at the Old Ebbett Grill, the first of Jeff Pulver’s stops for his whirlwind tour of Washington D.C. as he promotes HD voice.
About 24 to 26 people showed up for breakfast, a combination of people who wanted to learn more about HD voice and those who wanted [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 1st, 2009 Tweet
Tech and social media pundit Jeff Pulver is penciled in to make a trip to Washington D.C. on Tuesday, July 14, to promote the cause of HD Communications.
An agenda for the trip to the nation’s capital is still being finalized, but Pulver is expected to host a social media breakfast centered around HD [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 11th, 2009 Tweet
Last week, Blair Levin officially returned to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “help coordinate its development of a national broadband plan,” saith acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps. But let’s be honest, Blair probably already had a reserved parking space over there given his involvement in the Obama transition team on tech policy, working [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 1st, 2009 Tweet
Jeff Pulver is not planning just one follow-on HD Communications event this fall, but four of them, adding stops in Europe, Israel and potentially Australia.
A two day event in New York city is currently penciled in for September 15 and 16, but Pulver feels that he needs to be where “HD is happening” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 1st, 2009 Tweet
One of the missing pieces out of the HD Communications puzzle is standards — yes, plural. There are plenty of codec standards, mind you, but what defines an HD phone call, really? The telecommunications industry may have to borrow from a page from the TV world at some point down the road.
The lowest [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 29th, 2009 Tweet
If you don’t feel like plowing through all of the HD Communications Summit pieces, here’s a recap of what went on.
1) Jeff Pulver can still pull over 100 of the “right people” to an event just after InterOp and just before the U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
2) The baseline for a PSTN/POTS phone [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 26th, 2009 Tweet
There’s a very good case to be made that international communications needs will pull HD into both the consumer and enterprise worlds.
On the consumer side of the VoIP world, European carriers are leading the way with HD voice deployment. BT, FT, Telecom Italia and T-Mobile are all deploying HD voice in their networks [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 26th, 2009 Tweet
Unlike the start of VoIP and VON oh-so-long-ago (circa 1997), HD voice is much further down the technology path in terms of technology and deployment. Islands of HD usage are appearing at major corporations, while BT, France Telecom (FT), and T-Mobile are all deploying HD within their territories in Europe. FT expects to be [...]
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