Jeff Pulver Quotations

We're asking to be levied at a time and place that makes sense.

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Major media and Internet companies will announce blended, transformational IP-based communications plays.

But those communications are still synchronous and structured.

If all we're doing is driving down price, we lose.

If the hype was real, I could completely appreciate their arguments.

What most employees do not realize is that corporate rebates and incentives are enacted when the employee population reaches thresholds outlined in their vendor contracts. Meaning, while an employee thinks the actual cost of his or her airline ticket is $500, the actual cost may be much less. And in most cases preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize an entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on non-performance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

H.R. 1542 will lead to higher prices for telecom consumers and even slower deployment of advanced services,

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Replacing traditional phone service has been done. Now, it's time to utilize the real power of IP communications by providing organizations with capabilities that they can customize for any application in any environment. This is a good example of how the communications industry and computing industry are colliding.

Look for enterprises to explore the benefits of federating their communication networks.

We're coming to a point in time when we can deliver better quality images over the Internet. All of a sudden, this idea of disruption is spreading beyond phone providers. If you think of American Idol instead broadcasting over the Internet, a new dawn has come for the broadcast space. It's more of a point where the video becomes more functional to the way one works and lives.

There are many reasons that someone may have been unable to participate in the directory assistance infrastructure. One scenario could be the consumer may have a VoIP line or cell phone and their carrier does not provide their listing data to the listing data base providers, or their phone service is under a spouse or roommate's name.

This trickle to these new providers will start to become a stream, and from a small stream to a larger stream. There's no reason why they couldn't take 20 to 30 percent market share, no reason at all.

This turns the entire telecom industry picture on its head, and demonstrates that voice, presence, text messaging and other IP-based applications will be essential for the company of the future.

This turns the entire telecom industry picture on its head,

The pulver 100 is the VoIP industry's first and foremost award listing, and it continues to grow in significance as companies like Citel Technologies encourage more users to move to IP communications through affordable new migration paths. ... We're proud to name Citel Technologies to this year's pulver 100.

They already have the networks. It would be an incremental investment.

It was two years ago during spring VON. No one came.

The sides in the communications policy wars will become more apparent, with Internet access providers on the one side and Internet application providers on the other.

As VoIP is now moving into the mainstream, service providers are beginning to face new challenges related to operational scalability - growing the business at the speed of the market. With a history of success and proven deployment experience, Ensim helps service providers ensure a scalable and successful hosted VoIP deployment, and I'm proud to include Ensim in this year's pulver 100.

It's not really a question of whether we should or we shouldn't. It's inevitable to me that communications goes to IP and stays there, until something better goes along.

It's not like we're free riders. We're actually paying somebody for Internet access too.

It is time the Internet community started speaking for itself.

eBay obviously saw the cost of fighting a lawsuit better than the cost of paying the licensing fees.

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many ... had no telephone contact with their friends or loved ones simply because they did not own cell phones or call forwarding or voice mail services.

In the past, if you wanted to start a new phone company, you had to have the infrastructure and equipment. But now voice has become truly an application that can run on anything, instead of needing and entire infrastructure behind it.

Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.

We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution,

In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.

The industry is in its infancy. We still have yet to see interoperability, and we still have yet to see the promise (of IP telephony). To regulate it at this point could stifle the growth.