I had the fun experience yesterday of speaking to a senior executive at a former PTT. I was calling in using the BT-Yahoo voice client on my laptop, over my home wi-fi link. Audio quality was perfectly adequate. There’s actually an elevator shaft between me and the access point on the other side of the building. My home server is also on the same wifi network.
He was telling me how control over the home gateway and deploying an IMS-like architecture was going to enable premium service quality that would differentiate them from Internet players.
The irony wasn’t lost on either of us.
PS - My microphone went dead in the middle of a Skype call today. The other person terminated the call, and called me back. Still I’m silent. Look down, Martin — you’ve pressed the mute button on the headset cord by accident. No amount of QoS will overcome pressing the wrong damn button!
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That mute thing happens to me a lot too!
Posted by: at July 5, 2006 04:54 PM