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[Paul Brooks]

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Paul Brooks wrote:
>> Because it will shortly be Friday....
>>
>> http://www.totaltele.com/View.aspx?ID=93870&t=2&en=1
>>
>> Managers take calls in their PJs, survey shows. Plus other strange 
>> stories from the past seven days in telecoms, including bathroom 
>> bungles and beauty basics.
> <snip>
>
> Not so strange, if you are calling Toronto or New York from Sydney - 
> it can be midnight here and 8am there!
Certainly - it wasn't the aspect of taking calls at home in pyjamas that 
caught my eye, it was the pushback on video-enabled calling.
 Much of the activity and debate on broadband connectivity and services 
in the industry at the moment seems to have a built-in assumption that 
all broadband has to have enough capacity for some sort of video feed, 
justified usually by video-phones and video-enabled teleconferencing or 
IPTV. I've used elements of this myself in my current work, whether it 
is on the topic of IP network QoS, future of VoIP, or working on VDSL2.

Often these discussions and debates ignore human factors and 
preferences, which are highlighted in the news snippet - there are times 
when video capability is not only optional, but also deliberately NOT 
required or desirable.