If Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Alaska) keeps on the way he’s going, he may soon have enough material for a stand-up act. Last year it was ‘Net neutrality, trucks and tubes:
“Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
“… the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled, and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
I’m not sure what you find funny here. Actually the guy just describes what would be a basic service. About a year ago, France Telecom launched an offer which does precisely that : a mobile phone which turns into a WiFi IP phone as soon as you get back to your home, and of course it has a single number :
“unik is a telephone that, as well as offering standard mobile communication, offers unlimited calls to fixed lines and Orange mobiles when you are near a Livebox at home or at work.”
Sen. Stevens may well be attempting to describe Fixed Mobile Convergence - it’s not really clear. What I found amusing was his apparent unfamiliarty with current telecom services in the states - after all he is the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the telecom industry is one of his top 10 supporters.
Oh, and the motorcyle comment made me laugh out loud.
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If Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Alaska) keeps on the way he’s going, he may soon have enough material for a stand-up act. Last year it was ‘Net neutrality, trucks and tubes:
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I’m not sure what you find funny here. Actually the guy just describes what would be a basic service. About a year ago, France Telecom launched an offer which does precisely that : a mobile phone which turns into a WiFi IP phone as soon as you get back to your home, and of course it has a single number :
http://www.francetelecom.com/e.....60925.html
“unik is a telephone that, as well as offering standard mobile communication, offers unlimited calls to fixed lines and Orange mobiles when you are near a Livebox at home or at work.”
Posted by Guillaume Laurent at July 14th, 2007 at 2:14 amSen. Stevens may well be attempting to describe Fixed Mobile Convergence - it’s not really clear. What I found amusing was his apparent unfamiliarty with current telecom services in the states - after all he is the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the telecom industry is one of his top 10 supporters.
Oh, and the motorcyle comment made me laugh out loud.
Posted by John Paczkowski at July 14th, 2007 at 12:42 pmChairman of the Science and Transportation Committee ? Ah, didn’t know that. OK, so he’s really a schmuck :-).
About the motorcycle, I guess that’s because of the “Transportation” bit of the committee’s title - he had to illustrate it somehow.
Posted by Guillaume Laurent at July 16th, 2007 at 6:37 am