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Well that was fun. #sn09

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Asks @crick: Is the carrier selling voice or is the carrier selling connectivity? #sn09

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@chris0s: But the last things carriers should feel right now is superior. :)

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@chris0s: That was the one instance Fischl said they DO need carriers...PSTN. #sn09

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RT @donthorson: @jobsworth: Voice is a cloud service. Telephony and data centers are actually already merged #sn09

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Bogosian said carriers don't care how many people drop service until it starts to hurt their bottom line. [hello AT&T] #sn09

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Via @jobsworth in the UK, BT was forced to stop being monopoly line provider, it did us good. Facilities-based competition is dead. #sn09

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RT @kevinmarks says @MaryTrigiani do you need to work with carriers to federate identity? Fischl (Skype), Bogosian (Good) say no #sn09

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Walker says SMS traffic growing 'at a ridiculous rate' in Google Voice. #sn09

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Craig (Walker) from Google says voice doens't take a lot of 'pipe'. [telco slang flying in this room] #sn09

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Google has been buying bandwidth since 2005. Says Walker 'GV trying to turn the model upside down'. #sn09

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@chris0s: Well it does seem like everyone in the room understands lingo. @dsearls took quick survey. #telcogeeks #sn09

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Says @jobsworth: In the future, all carriers will provide the baseline service, s/w services will wrap and offer additional benefits. #sn09

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Federation applies to identity, billing and other conveniences that customers want. (via @jobsworth) #sn09

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@dsearls doesn't want to be locked in. Especially to AT&T. #sn09

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Slip of the tongue? @sanford caught Walker talking about 'the Google network'. #sn09

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Walker says 'GV depends on carriers to bring their customers. They just want to give users controls to help them use svcs better'. #sn09

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SK Telecom owns #1 IM and social network in Korea (have 90%) market share. Wow. #sn09

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Funny. Fischl says they don't need to worry about accessibility. Audience member said 'users do!'. #sn09

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Quesiton from the audience: why would I use s/w services to make calls, when really, the carriers are still more reliable right now? #sn09

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@chris0s: Trying to record the session, but the sound i not great (doors slamming, typing, etc). Will try to capture a few nuggets here. :)

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Looks like @kevinmarks is live tweeting this Telecom session again...follow him for juicy bits.

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Jason Fischl from Skype: 'We are a software company, not an operator.' #sn09

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RT @donthorson: How many people in the room have 2 phones with them today - about 40% say they do. #sn09 (via @dsearls)

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At #sn09 in the Telecom as Software session with @dsearls, @crick, Jonathan Christiansen, Brian Bogosian and Craig Walker.

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Ribbit Chrome Extension - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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RT @jkblack: Trying out Caller ID 2.0 in Ribbit Mobile with Greg Baltzer - great service

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@norrisr4: PhoneTag powers the voice-to-text piece of @Ribbit. As for the others --> http://www.ribbitmobile.com/blog...

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Yeah - looks like the Plaxo importer is happy again. CSV still wonky, so for now...upload CSV to Plaxo, then import into @ribbit.

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