{"id":183505,"date":"2013-02-10T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/10\/5-principals-for-modern-communications-technology\/"},"modified":"2013-02-10T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:01:00","slug":"5-principals-for-modern-communications-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/10\/5-principals-for-modern-communications-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Principals for Modern Communications Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"219\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MappLu5GYho?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MappLu5GYho?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"390\" height=\"219\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Harold Feld, Senior Vice President of Public Knowledge, telco policy wonk extraordinaire, and friend with whom I do medieval recreation with, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/blog\/five-fundamentals-framework-successful-transi\">must read essay on what a modern IP based telephone system should be like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, and unsurprisingly, it comes down to the same 5 principals that current switch based phone system has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Universal service for all Americans.  (Lifeline service for the poor)<\/li>\n<li>Guaranteed interconnection, so that a Verizon user can make a call to a Comcast user.<\/li>\n<li>Meaningful consumer protections. (i.e. &#8220;truth in billing&#8221;, which is lacking in cell phone service right now)<\/li>\n<li>Reliability (4 &#8220;9&#8221;s of reliability, something that is lacking in cell phone service right now, as well as various IP telephony services like AT&amp;T&#8217;s UVerse)<\/li>\n<li>Emergency calls that work.  (911 standards)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As is clear to anyone who spent even a few years under Ma Bell, these are not new concepts.&nbsp; Our phone system has run under this for the past 80 years, since the New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, with the urging of what I call the &#8220;free market mousketeers&#8221;, these principals have been slowly been rolled back, and this is not a good thing, as the people and first responders who were left without communications following super-storm Sandy can attest to.<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Feld notes, the real solutions to many of these problems is to separate the service (voice telephone) from the underlying technology (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_switched_telephone_network\">PSTN<\/a> vs. IP, or whatever might succeed IP) from a regulatory perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video.&nbsp; It is both clear, and does a good job of making what is ordinarily a very dry subject accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Feld, Senior Vice President of Public Knowledge, telco policy wonk extraordinaire, and friend with whom I do medieval recreation with, has a must read essay on what a modern IP based telephone system should be like. Basically, and unsurprisingly, it comes down to the same 5 principals that current switch based phone system has: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,985,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-regulation","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}