{"id":208,"date":"2003-10-01T20:59:49","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T01:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/01\/walks-and-talks-like-a-duck\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:45:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:45:20","slug":"walks-and-talks-like-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/01\/walks-and-talks-like-a-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Walks and talks like a duck&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a138'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems Vonage is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-7352_3-5080020.html?tag=st_rn\">now<\/a> charging extra 1.50 to its customers in anticipation of being regulated as a phone provider.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure a bunch of techies that have a large enough disposable income that can afford to buy broadband then pay for a phone service on TOP of this will be really enraged by this &#8216;extra charge&#8217; and can sort of sympathesize with them.  However, when you add up the real costs of getting VoIP unless you&#8217;re a talking monster or truly a really mobile person Vonage isn&#8217;t THAT huge a savings with the current price structures of things.  Although having more competition in how you get your phone service is overall a good thing.   Telecommunications is slowly changing as packet based networks become that much more ubiquitous however it&#8217;s not THAT widespread.<\/p>\n<p>I considered getting Vonage for having a U.S. based phone # before leaving for Japan however after adding in Broadband costs I decided it wasn&#8217;t really worth it even though I really can&#8217;t seem to live without a &#8216;net connection these days since most of the phone calls that I&#8217;ll need to be making from now on will be localized.  (Something to always keep in mind.   Locality EVEN in the Internet age is something you shouldn&#8217;t forget)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems Vonage is now charging extra 1.50 to its customers in anticipation of being regulated as a phone provider. I&#8217;m sure a bunch of techies that have a large enough disposable income that can afford to buy broadband then pay for a phone service on TOP of this will be really enraged by this &#8216;extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}