I’m sharing the news that IP telephony has finally arrived in India. This long-awaited regulatory shift opens the door for voice over internet services, fundamentally changing how communication infrastructure and costs are managed across the region.
Track the shift as internet telephony becomes legal in India via these reports from 2000. These sources cover the early regulatory changes and infrastructure developments that first allowed VoIP services in the country.
I’m excited to see ISPs finally preparing to launch internet telephony services. This move to integrate voice over data networks signals a major shift in how we’ll handle communication and digital connectivity.
I found early voice-access services like TellMe and BeVocal that enable users to navigate websites using voice commands over the phone, highlighting the emergence of telephony-based web interaction and VoiceXML technologies in 2001.
I discovered thousands of automated SSH brute-force attempts on my Amazon EC2 instance, arriving in rhythmic batches from a Chinese IP. It prompted me to reflect on my own history with web scraping and the importance of monitoring server logs.
This is a humorous observation that an airport display accidentally revealed the sort of operational details that should obviously never be public.