Free World Dialup will allow its 85,000 members to call non-subscribers across the U.S. and Canada at no charge from now though 31-December-2003. The service already offered free VoIP calls to other Free World Dialup members.
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Free World Dialup Announces Free VoIP-to-PSTN for the Holidays
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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December 16From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.