Australia Trials Phone To IP Service 76
daria42 writes "Australia is doing trial runs with a technology which could connect conventional phone numbers with Web pages, Internet fax services and other online resources. Subscribers to an ENUM service register their other contact details, then set up rules that control how and when calls to their phone are routed. For example, calls from anybody but close family could be routed straight to voicemail between 6pm and 11pm. Because it connects to any IP service, incoming callers could also use phone numbers to access Web sites, the Skype VoIP application, faxes and other applications."
I don't get it (Score:2)
Re:Of course... (Score:1, Interesting)
Wow they are way ahead of us.. (Score:1)
Re:Wow they are way ahead of us.. (Score:1)
Re:I don't get it (Score:1)
Re:I don't get it (Score:1)
Australian Technology Partnerships [austechpartnerships.com]
OZtell [oztell.com]
are the two that I use. There are lots of others including Telstra and Optus, although they are mostly targetted towards big companies.
Graham
Sounds like a great idea! (Score:2)
That way, when a family member has been arrested for sharing too many files on the Internet and they make their one phone call from jail to you, they'll get your voice mail.
But seriously... I know most people do it but I've never gotten screening one's phone calls. My experience with the federal and state "do not call lists" has been very positive so I literally get no sales calls any more. Th
Re:Sounds like a great idea! (Score:1)
Re:Sounds like a great idea! (Score:1)
Wow, man, you aren't much of a bud then, huh?
I hope for your sake that your "buds" don't know your /. id...
Re:Sounds like a great idea! (Score:1)
Consider this fact... (Score:1)
Here are a few other things that have never been said on a death bed:
1) I wish I had drank fewer beers
2) I wish I had had less sex
3) I wish I had tried fewer cuisines
4) I wish I had spent less time with my friends
5) I wish I had been a better corporate pogue
You only live once, so answer your buds when they call. I pity the person whose phone stops ringing...
Re:Sounds like a great idea! (Score:1)
Another phone-number harvesting scheme? (Score:2)
On The Bright Side... (Score:1)
Adventures in improper English, part 86 (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Adventures in improper English, part 86 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Adventures in improper English, part 86 (Score:1)
All nouns can be verbed.
No need to thank me, I was happy to clue you in.
Re:Adventures in improper English, part 86 (Score:1)
I challenge you to point me to the list of all the words that are allowed to exist in English.
I think you'll find that instead all you find are dictionaries, which contain a list of words that have been observed to be used. There is _no_ definitive list of all valid English words.
English is very capable of having new words created by applying the fairly intuitive rules that all english speakers pick up very quickly.
The ability to verb a noun is o
Re:Adventures in improper English, part 86 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Should be easy... (Score:2, Funny)
Actually...I highly doubt many people around here have actually ever seen that endless amusing flash cartoon...
There goes my karma...
Re:Should be easy... (Score:2)
Dammit, now I'm gonna have to find it again!
VoIP will be dead in 6 months! (Score:5, Interesting)
The fact is that the popularity and ubiquity of VoIP is going to increase because of all the hype. But hype won't be able to overcome the fact that quality isn't as good as the PSTN. Hype won't be able to hide that 911 loaction can't work without seriously impairing theusefullness of VoIP. And, most important of all, hype won't be able to hide the security problems with VoIP.
How long are you going to continue using VoIP when some script kiddie that you pissed off on IRC DDoSes your phone? Who's going to keep on using VoIP when the latest Outlook worm prevents them form making phone calls for the next two days? Who's going to keep VoIP when they realize that I, or anyone else can listen in on their calls right this minute?
VoIP is great. I use it right now. But, I haven't cut the PSTN cord and I won't cut the PSTN cord for VoIP. It's just too dangerous and it'll only be another 6 months before disaster strikes and everyone realizes how dangerous it is.
Think about it; 'Hello? Police? this is
6 Months
Agreed. (Score:3, Insightful)
VoiP cannot be reliable over a shared medium where there is no control. The phone companies know this already and the consumer and Vonages of the world are about to find out too. At that point, everyone will com
Won't cut the PSTN cord either.. (Score:1)
Re:VoIP will be dead in 6 months! (Score:2)
How did you get broadband without paying rent for a phone line? Are you on cable?
VoIP won't die, it will grow and change (Score:2)
I c
And then there was light.... (Score:2)
That's right SIP sucks for all the reasons stated above; security, DDOS, Spam etc..
VoIP however doesn't need to suck. DDoSes are easily taken care of by NAT Firewalls.
Security? Try breaking 256 bits AES with your leet AMD Fx-51.
Spam? just lock out those who aren't explicity allowed.
But I here you say, SIP cannot do all these thigns. And you're right, but VoIPSIp and Skype is also VoIP
Skype takes care of all these little problems for
Why Quality is really not a problem (Score:2)
But even 8kbps G.729a codecs, which are the most common compression, are really just fine for most people most of the time. They're better than cellphone codecs, and most desktop VOIP equipment doesn't have tinny little microphones with background road noise drowning them out
That muffled explosion you heard... (Score:1)
Every day I get closer to building a secret bunker somewhere.
Thank you for... (Score:2, Funny)
"Thank you for calling Google, how can I help you?"
"ummm... hi... I'd like to search for anime boobs"
"Alright, lets see here is the first result out of 807,000 in
Re:Thank you for... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Thank you for... (Score:2, Funny)
Seems more like wow that's cool factor than anything of use.
I'm waiting for the day when I can pick up the mouse, and in a scottish brogue say "Computer? Computer!?" and get a response...
Re:Thank you for... (Score:1)
I suspect they took it down because it was getting to be too much of a strain on phone lines. Either that or they had a really good speller manning the phones and typing things in.
So could they... (Score:1)
From an answering machine connected to the web: (Score:2)
Hypothetical SPAMMER Scenario (Score:5, Funny)
SPAMMER: Hey Buddy, your woman wants a big one.
You: What?! Who is this? Remove me from your... *beeping* Oh wait a sec, I've got a another call. *click* Hello?
SPAMMER 2: Hi, this is Charles Taylor from Liberia, I need to use your bank account...
You: WTF!? STOP..*beep beep* Hold on. *click*
SPAMMER 3: Hi, thanks for the advice. Could you open this file immediately?
Re:Hypothetical SPAMMER Scenario (Score:2)
Now they're even calling my cell phone (which I thought was illegal) with a recorded "You have won!". I really feel like invoicing them for the $0.25 in airtime charges, just to take on the overhead of paying a small invoice.
Crikey! An ENUM e164.arpa FAQ (Score:3, Informative)
(I'm not gonna pretend that I understood all the answers ...)
Wrong Way (Score:3, Insightful)
I want the opposite: I want my phone number to be arbitrary text of my choosing. I want the whole phone system to use good voice recognition, so that any time I want to call anyone, if I can remember their phone-moniker, all I have to do is say it into the phone. A DNS-like system will go reference this to their actual phone number, IP address, or whatever address and protocol they choose to use for voice communications, and connect me.
Re:Wrong Way (Score:1)
Its odd but there you are, maybe its because phone numbers are unambiguous, numbers are numbers. Words have many different spellings, especially on the web
Re:Wrong Way (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Wrong Way (Score:3, Informative)
That's not really all that ENUM does. ENUM isn't grown up yet, but think of it as a DNS for phone numbers and then some. You wouldn't want to have to type in the IP address every time you wanted to view a web page, would you? ENUM does the same for telephony as DNS does for the web. The strongest use of ENUM, IMHO will be the ability to "follow" someone no matter what phone they're on based upon the rules t
Re:Wrong Way (Score:2)
I want my phone number to be arbitrary text of my choosing
I'm not sure how it could be left up to the individual users. Even with a DN
Re:Wrong Way (Score:2)
a) Calls from the PSTN to VoIP: You only can dial numbers and not URIs on more than a billion handsets which are out there.
b) Calling someone where you don't know whether he's on VoIP or not. You give your PBX (or softphone) a telephone number and it finds out via ENUM which is the best way to call
c) Retrieving additional info concerning a phone number. e.g. finding a URL for a photo to display on a headset on an incoming call.
Phone to IP Service? (Score:1)
DUNDi (Score:3, Interesting)
"DUNDi is a peer-to-peer system for locating Internet gateways to telephony services. Unlike traditional centralized services (such as the remarkably simple and concise ENUM standard), DUNDi is fully-distributed with no centralized authority whatsoever."
Centralization is a big concern (Score:2)
Been there... (Score:2, Informative)
This is the opposite of a good idea. (Score:1)
Mmmm'K.
How about using a URL to dial phones? Wouldn't that make more sense?
'phone.sjbaker.org' and 'fax.sjbaker.org' as well as 'www.sjbaker.org' ?
Re:This is the opposite of a good idea. (Score:1)
The plan ages ago was to create some kind of hierarchy: us.az.phoenix.elm-street.542.john-smith, for example, to describe everyone. Then you could just bookmark your favorite people, and it would be the same net effect as putting all those 10-digit numbers in a phone book. Services like AIM and Skype rely on usernames to be unique, and those too become hard to join when you have millio
I may be crazy, but... (Score:2)
I think this is going to be one more thing that takes more effort to use than the benefits it will provide.
My new number (Score:1)