AT&T New Wireless Plans And Femtocell (Microcell) Costs More?

AT&T New Wireless Plans And Femtocell  http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
As usual Andy from VoIP Watch has brought up a questions and three answers regarding AT&T's press release on new wireless plans yesterday or rather what is not in the press release,

"The other detail missing from the press release is the apparent fact that femtocell traffic ("Microcell" in AT&T parlance) is *included* in counting towards the quota, but WiFi traffic is *excluded*." Dean Bubley

that makes you think AT&T is out to gouge you while helping other carriers like cable gouge you as well. You might find paying for the same service twice. Here are Andy's answers, you can find the question on Andy's post;

1) You pay AT&T for the traffic even if it really isn't going over their wireless network
2) You will pay for the the pleasure of having a Microcell in your own network, possibly carrying your neighbors traffic because of coverage gaps in the AT&T network
3) Users are better off using WiFi

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Asterisk 1.4.20-rc3 And Asterisk 1.6.0-beta9 Ready For Your Testing.

Asterisk development team has released Asterisk 1.4.20-rc3 and Asterisk 1.6.0-beta9. The impending releases and the quality of the upcoming 1.4.20 and 1.6.0 releases rely on us testing these. As in the past, testing process has proven extremely useful to Asterisk Community. So if you are an Asterisk user, vendor or a community member, Please help to test these release as we will all share the fruits of your labour.
I am in the process of setting it up on an virtual machine for testing. Setting up on a virtual machine may eliminate you having to assign a seperate computer for testing but there are some little glitches associated with it. Ideal condition would be seperate computer, which does not have to be super powerful unless you are planing to do capacity testing!.
Any issues with test releases should be reported to http://bugs.digium.com/ or discussed on the asterisk-dev mailing list.

Both releases are available for download from the Digium downloads site.

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

Tags: Asterisk Beta, Asterisk 1.4.20-rc3, Asterisk 1.6.0-beta9

VoiceXML Browser For Asterisk Gives Web-enabled Interactive Voice and Video Response (IVVR) applications.

Digium, the creator of the Number one open source VoIP IP Telephony and IP PBX software Asterisk, has partnered with I6NET to provide an VoiceXML browser as an add on for Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium's family of software and hardware appliances including AsteriskNOW™, Asterisk Business Edition™ and Switchvox™.
So what does this VoiceXML browser does to Asterisk? You can talk and interact with asterisk via IVR applications. It will provide the capability to create interactive voice and video applications. I6NET's add on first complete VoiceXML browser add-on for Asterisk.
VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk gives developers, operators, and service providers the ability to rapidly develop and deploy innovative VoiceXML-controlled voice and video applications in VoIP, PSTN, and 3G-324M networks. VXI* is fully compliant with W3C VoiceXML 2.0 and some 2.1 specifications, and can easily integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems to enable advanced IVVR applications, voice and video communications, and real-time video calling applications. VXI* interpreter is pluggable into standard Digium Asterisk PBX releases including Asterisk Business Edition. The solution provides the important benefits of scalability and a low cost solution profile. Most users of Asterisk can run VoiceXML in the same server.
"Choosing the Asterisk telephony platform is the most important decision we have taken for deploying our VoiceXML browser", said Ivan Sixto, CEO at I6NET. "Asterisk is a strong system on which developer's ecosystem can easily build advanced multimedia services with VXI*. Running web-enabled Interactive Voice and Video Response (IVVR) applications is now possible on the Asterisk platform."

"Asterisk is designed from the ground up to provide a flexible platform for developing value-added applications," said Jim Webster, director of technology partnerships at Digium. "The work I6NET has done provides a new option with powerful potential for speech solution providers. VXI* is a good example of business-focused innovation from the worldwide Asterisk ecosystem."

The complete press release could be found at Digium Mediacenter.

tag: Asterisk, Asterisk News, VoiceXML, VXI* VoiceXML browser, VoiceXML browser, VoIP IP Telephony, IP PBX, VoIP, PSTN, 3G-324M, VoiceXML 2.0, VoiceXML 2.1, IVVR applications, voice and video communications, AsteriskNOW™, Asterisk Business Edition™, Switchvox™

Asterisk Jobs? Newer Site with Newer Ideas

Asterisk Jobs has revamped it's site and changed it's policies, pricing and even the theme. The site touts it self to be simple. If you are looking for Asterisk jobs or VOIP IP Telephony Jobs can easily browse the site for jobs and apply to them. The service is free but if you are an employer searching for job seekers, to post a job you must pay a small fee.
I have not applied nor posted jobs with them but I came across the site while looking for Asterisk News.
http://www.asterisk-jobs.com
tag: Asterisk Jobs, Asterisk News, VOIP IP Telephony Jobs