More VoIP and Vonage

When Vonage goes portable discusses the interesting development of a Vonage compatible software only stack. From the comments, the windows version is already available.

Also from the December 10, 2003 DSL Prime:

"Voice over IP is like planting dynamite on a bridge," Powell says "Put the right piece in the right place, and the whole thing is coming down."

Dave Burstein goes on...

The Bells are not going to tie it up in regulation for years. Suddenly the problem is overhype — remember, only about 15% of U.S. homes have cable modems, the prime market. Qwest just demonstrated why the VOIP market is a small niche in DSL homes, with pricing to shut out competitors.

I'm not so sure about the last part, because it's only based on Qwest. I've done the numbers for myself and Verizon loses most of my service because they can't give me the same deal. They end up supplying basic POTS and are the third party vendor for my DSL service. If fiber ever happens around here, they'll lose all but one line for POTS (the nice thing about basic telephone service is that it works even when we lose power just as long as we keep an older phone around and the vendor has power).