The VoIP story of the week was obviously Yahoo's announcement of an Internet telephony service interconnecting with the PSTN. Meanwhile not all ebay vendors are reported to be enthusiastic about the use of Skype.
Another article documenting growth in the Indian telecoms market since liberalisation including growth in Internet access and broadband. The best place for statistics on Indian telecoms is at the regulator's website. Unlike the rope trick, described in Peter Lamont's new book, it seems like it is really happening this time.
From time to time Hop255 glances at the bandwidth test on the Greengrass site. The results from earlier in the year are here. The most notable change is Australia dropping out of the top ten and being replaced by Canada and the US dropping from second to tenth. It would be interesting to know the sample size. Here are the results from December 4th, 2005.
ICANN has given the go ahead for dot cat (.cat for the Catalan region of Spain), and .eu for Europe will start operation, soon so why not dot scot. One the other hand, why anyone would want to go through this process defies belief.
Meanwhile Hop255 is not sure this will solve the world's Internet governance debate but good luck to dot love.