What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
-- Vinton Cerf
   
Vinton Cerf   Name:
Vinton Cerf
Type:
Inventor
Nationality:
American
Birth:
June 23, 1943
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