[*] StarStar Me: Using your name as your phone number

[Hartmut W Sager]

 There have been (and are) a number of efforts in this direction, like .tel
(a TLD sponsored by Telnic) and eNum, and even E.164 and OpenID have some
overlap with these efforts.  It's a great idea!

On a related note, major gains in voice quality and cost of transmission
could be achieved if all VoIP-to-VoIP calls (even between different
carriers) could be identified as VoIP-to-VoIP at initiation time and avoid
going through the PSTN (public switched telephone network) entirely.  Some
suggestions along this line have been made, but "efforts" would be an
overstatement.

VoIP-to-VoIP within single carriers is normally done without the PSTN -
Vonage and Shaw both do this, I believe.  That's especially why they can
offer unlimited long-distance between customers on the same carrier, though
it's also good marketing in any case.

Hartmut Sager


On 21 January 2013 12:39, Ron Dallmeier <rondallmeier at fiber.ca> wrote:

> http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/cdn/News.asp?id=69730
>
> Perhaps **email-address would be a good standard - guarantees unique
> names and it could be obtained from existing contacts and billing
> list.
> IE - the carrier sends your bill to your email already why not auto
> register you for the StarStar Email service.
>
> Clearly, still a big issue with traditional land phones.
>
> ...Ron
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