{"id":90,"date":"2005-01-25T00:34:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T03:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/25\/the-end-of-long-distanee\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T00:34:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T03:34:27","slug":"the-end-of-long-distanee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/25\/the-end-of-long-distanee\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of long distanee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellster.net\">Bellster<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a>. Reading Jeff Pulver&#8217;s overview on <a href=\"http:\/\/andyabramson.blogs.com\/voipwatch\/2005\/01\/what_bellster_i.html\">VoIP Watch<\/a> and the bellster site I am *VERY* excited.  I proposed a similar idea to a few friends and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\">#sclug<\/a> back in June but nobody seemed to excited.  When I explained it I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpc.int\">TPC<\/a>&#8216;s example for free faxes over the internet as an analogy for what I wanted to see with VoIP.   I was planning to run this by the folks on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/speakers\/panel_voip.php\">SCALE VoIP panel <\/a> next month. <\/p>\n<p>Bellster isnt exactly what I had hoped would happen.  I was hoping for something more open that didnt necessarily require the end user to donate lines, but I realize now that this requirement is important at the start to make sure the needed lines are added to the system before the rush of non-contributing users comes in.  Systems like Bellster will revolutionize the telcom industry even more so than Vonage&#8217;s offerings.  Assuming you can find users in every country nobody should ever have to pay for more than local phone service and net access because every call is a local call somewhere.  Long distance is a thing of the past now I want my &#8220;NO DISTANCE&#8221; calling plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out about Bellster from Slashdot. Reading Jeff Pulver&#8217;s overview on VoIP Watch and the bellster site I am *VERY* excited. I proposed a similar idea to a few friends and on #sclug back in June but nobody seemed to excited. When I explained it I used TPC&#8216;s example for free faxes over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}