Archive for the ‘NuFone’ Category

June 25

About Time for A Change

Posted by jj
Filed under NuFone, VoIP | 5 Comments

Things are finally changing for the better in both my personal and business lives.
As for the personal side of things I will be getting married to Krystina Patterson on July 26th, 2008 in an outside ceremony here in lovely Northern Michigan. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, feel free to […]

June 20

NuFone: Worst Provider Ever…

Posted by jj
Filed under Asterisk, Flamewar, NuFone | 9 Comments

This really grinds my gears™
Apparently the worst provider ever award goes to NuFone… Well, at least according to this blog post.
This is yet another person who has chose to slant his experiences with NuFone in order to promote service from another VoIP Provider. Anyone else see a trend?
For the record, his trouble ticket was […]

November 12

Running Asterisk on an FPGA

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David Rowe has an excellent article about Running Asterisk on an FPGA.
From the Article:

Many clever tricks are possible with a FPGA, for example you can just “compile in” a floating point unit, include all your system glue logic on the same FPGA, or provide hardware acceleration for application specific tasks. In this case, FIR […]

October 31

NetZero to Suspend VoIP Services

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Filed under NetZero, News, NuFone, Packet8, VoIP | No Comments

Just over a month ago Packet8 issued a press release stating that it had signed an agreement with a service provider that will soon exit the VoIP market. This agreement calls for the exclusive recommendation of Packet8 as the replacement VoIP service for its soon-to-be-orphaned subscribers.
Today I am now seeing reports that NetZero intends to […]

October 29

Tell Me What You Really Think About NuFone

Posted by jj
Filed under Flamewar, NuFone | 11 Comments

Initially I was not going to say anything about this, as doing so tends to do nothing more than to stir the horrnets nest. However, I am sick and tired of people bashing my company for no particular reason. For the record I am posting this on my own personal site and it does […]

September 20

Come Play With Asterisk at The Astricon CodeZone

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Filed under Asterisk, Astricon, Digium, NuFone | No Comments

I am planning on spending another year up in the CodeZone at Astricon 2007. Last year was very much unorganized and I spent most of the time doing testing specifically for NuFone and a couple clients that were local to Dallas.
This year I would like make an attempt to be a slight bit more […]

March 19

Cingular/AT&T Blocks Calls to Numbers in 712 Area Code

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Filed under News, NuFone, SunRocket | No Comments

Ars Technica reports that Cingular/AT&T has blocked their customers from calling various ‘free’ calling services, like FuturePhone and PartyLine Connect, in the 712 area code. Cingular representative Mark Siegel said, “We have to pay terminating access for every minute the person is on the line. Typically these companies run them through local exchange companies […]

January 30

Asterisk: Start With a Solid Foundation

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NuFone just published a brief guide to famailiarize yourself with the core concepts of an Asterisk PBX system.