AT&T Begins Phone Trials in New Zealand

telecom >> AT&T Begins Phone Trials in New Zealand

by Jack Decker » Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:52:47 GMT

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3010966a28,00.html

By ADRIAN BATHGATE

New Zealand will be one of the first places outside the United States
to experience AT&T's consumer internet telephone product, CallVantage.

CallVantage consists of a desktop unit which connects a standard
telephone to a DSL or cable modem and lets people make calls over the
internet through AT&T, avoiding regular toll charges.

A pilot of the product is just beginning in the Asia-Pacific
region. Between 200-to-300 units will be trialled in Hong Kong,
Singapore, Australia and New Zealand among staff of AT&T's corporate
customers.

"The trial will be complete by the years' end then a decision will be
made on roll-out," says Steve Lowe, AT&T's vice-president responsible
for the Asia Pacific.

Full story at:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3010966a28,00.html

How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/

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.. pls help me get my head around this. Business has a 12 month old NEC IPS 2000 PABX with voip capability (use IP cards for trunk to trunk calling over frame relay to remote office with same NEC PABX model, also use NEC softphones successfully). GM now asking for us to set up the existing NEC IPS to utilise Voip calls in addition to PSTN calls to overseas customers and suppliers as a cheaper alternative. So I figure we need these 3 things: 1. A decent internet feed - Tick, we have 5mbit Ethernet feed. 2. Some sort of hardware gateway to talk to a VOIP provider (where do I start? Cisco?) 3. A VOIP provider that bills us for calls at less than the local Telco. Am I on the right track here? Does such a VOIP provider exist down here in NZ? Could I use overseas prov instead? How do callers make VOIP calls back to you (e.g a staff member being contactable at their desk phone via a Voip address just like using a DDI?) Phone system wise how would the NEC phone system determine routing of calls via VOIP vs PSTN. Sorry for all the questions, newbie to this. Want to get my head around principles before going any further. Technology assumptions tend to cost money :-)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Thad Floryan < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote: > Govt internet filter going live is sad day for NZ > Thursday, 11 March 2010 I don't know how true this is, but radio commentator Alex Jones has claimed his websites infowars.com and prisonplanet.com have been blocked in both Australia and New Zealand. I'm not here to condone or condemn anything Alex says or stands for. But I find it frightening that otherwise enlightened, liberal democracies are resorting to this sort of thing. How can we even think of criticizing Iran or China when we're doing the same? John -- John Mayson < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > Austin, Texas, USA

I have been trying to talk to my daughter in New Zealand using video Skype beta 2.0.0.63, under Win XP Home. I am on broadband in the UK, but unfortunately she is still on 56 kbps dialup. The connection starts off well -- excellent picture and acceptable audio -- but after a few seconds the audio starts to break up badly, and my daughter sounds as if she is overdosing on a mixture of mogadon and helium! Then, after about 30 seconds, the connection automatically terminates. This is repeated every time we connect. I assume that Skype is automatically terminating the connection because the audio is broken up so badly. (I don't have any problems talking to other people overseas, but they are all on broadband). Is there anything in Skype we can twiddle to improve things? Connection timeout? Codec? -- Ian

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