Other areas of possible VoIP innovation include technological solutions for compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA, the FBI wiretapping regulation) and support for e-911 dialing services, neither of which is inherent to most VoIP implementations today. In typical Pulver fashion, he's doing more than just talking about the ideas: At his company's offices in Melville, NY, he says he's supporting five start-ups in an incubator fashion.
While those companies are already mining the VoIP market, in the near future Pulver predicts it will be someone from "outside the current industry" who will truly lead the commercialization of VoIP to bring it to the masses. Jobs, he says, offered the perfect example of how to do this via Apple's iPod rollout, which popularized digital media compression in a way none of the previous MP3 proponents could.
"The iPod wasn't new technology," Pulver notes, and neither is VoIP. But what broadband voice needs, he says, "is a personality with vision and execution, who can take a geeky technology and consumerize it."
While he searches for that spokesperson, Pulver is either busy fielding calls from top-tier venture capitalists, or writing blog entries about his appearances before Congress and the FCC (or maybe just about how he loves flying on Jet Blue). So even as Pulver says he doesn't know who will lead VoIP to the promised land yet, it's a good bet that whoever that person is will definitely know him.
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