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Skype Journal at VON Canada

April 18, 2005 08:08 PM

Topics: events

Despite my continued attempts to do so, maple-leaf.gifI can't be everywhere at once. (I was so counting on Skype to solve that problem.) So Stuart Henshall and Bill Campbell are in Toronto this week, at one of the biggest gatherings of the VoIP faithful this year. Questions for other VON Canada attendees:
  1. How will mobile companies adapt/compete with the Skypes of the world?
  2. What are the last-mile businesses doing to move consumers from midband speeds (1 to 3 MPS) to Internet 2 speeds?
  3. Do you have IP in your car? In your mobile phone?
  4. What have you learned about how people use video calls?
  5. What would it take to offer interoperability between VoIP clients and networks? We still don't have instant messaging interop between Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL a decade later.
  6. What are the biggest Canadian telco regulatory issues we'll see in the next 24 months? Which ones affect the Internet, intellectual property, P2P, and VoIP?
  7. As the different architectures and business models of VoIP prove themselves in the market, we'll see some consolodation. What characteristics of a VoIP provider would make them attractive M&A targets by a mobile service provider? by a landline telco? by a cable TV company? by an ISP?
  8. If six guys in a garage can make Skype, what other disruptive technologies pose risks and opportunities for the established players?
  9. How do Canadian telcos trade off the public interests of security vs. privacy when it comes to designing their networks?
  10. Should the Federal government have a national commitment to rolling out IP to every Canadian?
  11. Are you blogging yet?
  12. What's your Skype strategy?
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