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06-02-2005, 05:43 AM

I'm not so sure about voice over ip - not with the likes of Skype around, who, with a distributed Napster/BitTorrent style architecture, are able to offer a similar level of service, for free.

If broadband continues its advance everywhere, soon most populated areas of the world will be plugged into high-speed connections and will likely have WiFi splashing all over everything. Say someone makes a Skype-like phone that connects to a free WiFi point and is then able to bit-torrent voice signal to another phone of the same type - all for free - a la Skype is now for pc-to-pc connections - that's a huge chunk of the telephone, voip, cellphone network just gone - boom - finished.

All it would take is a small independant firm to build a receiver that sniffs out open WiFi connections, and code a small-device version of Skype.

06-02-2005, 05:43 AM	#4 (permalink)
zen_tom Guest	I'm not so sure about voice over ip - not with the likes of Skype around, who, with a distributed Napster/BitTorrent style architecture, are able to offer a similar level of service, for free. If broadband continues its advance everywhere, soon most populated areas of the world will be plugged into high-speed connections and will likely have WiFi splashing all over everything. Say someone makes a Skype-like phone that connects to a free WiFi point and is then able to bit-torrent voice signal to another phone of the same type - all for free - a la Skype is now for pc-to-pc connections - that's a huge chunk of the telephone, voip, cellphone network just gone - boom - finished. All it would take is a small independant firm to build a receiver that sniffs out open WiFi connections, and code a small-device version of Skype. Last edited by zen_tom; 06-02-2005 at 10:37 AM.. Reason: it's/its - for goodness sake!