Pulver Sees Growing Momentum for Voice on Net (VON)

This year will be remember as the year that VoIP "really happened," said Jeff Pulver, speaking at the opening of Fall VON 2004 in Boston -- as evidenced by extensive prime time TV commercials for consumer VoIP service during the Olympic Games, the FCC approval of the "pulver Order," which set a deregulatory tone for the industry; and the arrival of the first VoIP price wars.
Pulver believes we are at the crossroads between reality and hype. Clearly, interest in VoIP continues to grow -- the VON conference is expected to attract 5,000 attendees and over 200 exhibitors.



Pulver hinted that he will soon be filing a new FCC petition addressing the future of telephone numbers, which he described as a 120-year old mistake because they are associated with a physical address, instead of a person. Pulver said he would file his petition on behalf of country code 1, although it potentially impacts any calling on the Net. More details are expected soon. http://www.pulver.com