My Declaration of Telephony Independence
Monday, December 24th, 2007Since the inception of modern telecommunications, Ma Bell and her Baby Bells have been trying to convince people that long distance communication is expensive and complicated. They’ve done this by developing a unique and complex language to describe the mechanics of Voice Transmission.
They have also built a closed network and have kept outsiders from understanding the inter-workings of this environment in order to discourage direct interaction and price competition. On a Global level, individual countries have devised methods of standards of delivering communication services that until recently - were incompatible with other countries.
While Government interaction has removed many barriers to interaction and has made progress to encourage fair competition, the technical environment is still “closed” in comparison to “open” networks such as the Internet. In Computing and data transmission, the Internet has proven that a common medium is best for facilitating the action of communication.
However, for voice transmission - which is by far the most efficient form of human communication, barriers still exist in telecommunications networks that prohibit technological progress. For this reason - Telephony Should Evolve.
I believe it’s time to reconsider how we can enable people to communicate. Technology has given us tools and models to enable much more efficient means of Voice Communication. It’s time to change the way we exchange information and adopt better ways to facilitate communications of all kinds, to all people, in the most efficient and effective way.
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