Pulver debuts P2P Bellster network
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Digital troublemaker Jeff Pulver is at it again. This time, he’s unleashed a way to use the Internet to let anyone use your phone to make a call.
And, conversely, you can place calls all over the world–often for free–by “borrowing” someone else’s phone.
Bellster, as Pulver’s new creation is called, smashes yet another telephone industry tradition. Until Bellster’s release about a week ago, it was very difficult–if not impossible–to share a phone line with someone else without the phone company’s consent. But now it’s happening, thanks to voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, a burgeoning technology that lets Internet connections double as local phone lines. VoIP is the underlying plumbing in Bellster’s system, which ultimately lets people call any type of phone.
The VOIP landscape just keeps getting more and more interesting…
