Talk:Voice over IP

Historical milestones section

2004 — Commercial VoIP service providers proliferate

Why just 2004? Have they not proliferated in other years? This historical milestone, or at least the date to which it is confined, seems rather dubious to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.14.254.26 (talk) 20:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Presumably this is when commercial VoIP started to become widely available. I've added early as a qualfier and requested a citation. ~Kvng (talk) 14:52, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Outdated informations

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In this article, under Legal Issues -> European Union in last paragraph at the end there is quote "A review of the EU Directive is under way and should be complete by 2007." It should be either updated with the directive if it is completed, or update the date since it has passed 6 years since 2007. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.2.125.70 (talk) 22:02, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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The however person, - are you also the one who thinks this is a TEXTBOOK!?!?

This is a digital encyclopedia, and it's written, and edited by anyone - who -hopefully, can contribute. I've run across something on various pages, which share 2 things in common; the (bizarre) obsession with the word, however - and (Almost always) on these same pages, it seems that (is it the same person?) there's huge sections which seem to be COPIED directly from textbooks. The way these parts are written include language typically found in textbooks, where the author(s) is engaged with the reader, almost (in some cases) as if they were a 'teacher',

'Thus, we can see', is a typical example. It's not natural English, and it's a dead-giveaway someone is copying from a book. I believe it's the same person as the person obsessed wit the word however, which - in a normal reading of an average page in English, one comes rarely across, but, whenever it appears here, on a WikIpedia page, there'll be many instances, and in the most odd places. Whoever this person is - it's obvious English is NOT your native tongue, because no one speaks like this, and writing here - in a language which is not your native tongue, as if this is a 'classroom', is disingenuous (looking over the note written directly above this, it too, seems to be written in the same stilted-English. I'm guessing that others do notice that this person - Asv128 - wants to contribute, but, doesn't understand the 'advice' which seems to have been proffered).

I don't think they're doing this maliciously, but, the effect is almost the same; hard to read, trying to decipher - in plain, clear English - what it is thy've tried to convey, but, by taking it from others. I'd recommend for you - who apparently wants to contribute, write on the WikIpedia which is in your native tongue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UNOwenNYC (talk • contribs) 23 okt 2017 16:46 (UTC)

Marian Croak

I have removed this contribution because it does not make clear Croak's contributions. It arguably gives the impression that Croak invented VoIP. This is clearly not the case. No objection to mentioning her contributions but we need a better explanation of what they are. ~Kvng (talk) 00:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

VoIP was developed by Marian Croak and her team at AT&T and over 100 patents are awarded to her on VoIP. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 for her patent on the technology.

References

~Kvng (talk) 00:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)