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Undertoad · 08-28-2006, 08:32 AM

Six months later, how has tw's conspiracy prediction held up?

I'm reminded of this thread by this story in which people are trying and think they have figured out how to interfere with Skype. But not for profiteering purposes - it's for Euro regulatory and security purposes.

With my ear to the ground I have not heard of one example of VoIP traffic being interfered with for profiteering.

Meanwhile, Vonage had an IPO but continues to be hurt by the market noticing that, while Vonage charges $24.95, others charge $0. Google put "Chats" into Gmail. A bunch of hardware manufactures including Philips and US Robotics have come out with VoIP phones for the consumer market. And the carrier fight remains one of providing the most possible and most perfect connectivity and bandwidth, of which all voice over IP requires a tiny, tiny fraction.

It's not looking good for tw's predictions. Luckily he didn't suggest a wager for the Cellar calendar. But I won't bring up his mistakes here in any other threads. That would be unfair.

08-28-2006, 08:32 AM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Six months later, how has tw's conspiracy prediction held up? I'm reminded of this thread by this story in which people are trying and think they have figured out how to interfere with Skype. But not for profiteering purposes - it's for Euro regulatory and security purposes. With my ear to the ground I have not heard of one example of VoIP traffic being interfered with for profiteering. Meanwhile, Vonage had an IPO but continues to be hurt by the market noticing that, while Vonage charges $24.95, others charge $0. Google put "Chats" into Gmail. A bunch of hardware manufactures including Philips and US Robotics have come out with VoIP phones for the consumer market. And the carrier fight remains one of providing the most possible and most perfect connectivity and bandwidth, of which all voice over IP requires a tiny, tiny fraction. It's not looking good for tw's predictions. Luckily he didn't suggest a wager for the Cellar calendar. But I won't bring up his mistakes here in any other threads. That would be unfair.