blah95
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Unfortunatly, I don't see widespread internet TV service taking off anytime soon.
Currently, a lot of corporations, universities, and even countries are banning or blocking their VOIP service. That might be due to bandwidth restrictions, politics, etc. Now with their proposed TV service, I can see even more entities blocking (or at the very least, traffic shaping) that service for the same reasons.
In the future, hopefully bandwidth problems would be solved. However, that still leaves politics and whatever else. |
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jgkolt
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
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| For me, for about a year now i have been pleasantly happy with skype. the fact they added free calls to the us is even better.I am surprised it didn't get that much bigger. As for banning of skype on university's i think one step that would greatly help was if it didn't act as a p2p client. the address book works on the p2p basis and fills up the firewall log all with its uses. IF they could tame that or centralize that I think we would see some improvement. As for bandwidth i do not think that is actually an issue, except to maybe the uninformed. As for gizmo, i saw this service but i have not tested it out. Skype has some major money behind it and free tv with ads over internet... sign me up.
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DufiefData
join:2006-06-13
Gaithersburg, MD
| University red herring
I am almost certain that Universities are banning Skype because it obviates the need for the exploitative phone plans that have been part and parcel of college life for a long time. It also makes call tracing much more difficult and they are likely frightened about legal liabilities.
Any "bandwidth" issue is a red herring. Students run all manner of p2p, file sharing, streaming video and other apps, each of which probably uses at least 10x the bandwidth of Skype. |
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | Well I am just saying first hand the firewall issue is something I have personally seen.
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JerryTongue
join:2003-04-01
Auburn, WA | reply to DufiefData
ISP"s have been blocking skype off and on because they are trying to sell VOIP. |
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | sounds like bad business to me. A temporary monopoly on the internet lines they serve.
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