Our local Fairfield County newspaper The Stamford Advocate had a nice article on TMC today. I actually worked for this newspaper briefly when I was 16. I was a telemarketer and sold newspaper subscriptions. I am sure if someone told me then that one day I would be in a feature story in the same newspaper, I would have said they were nuts.

"Not only does this reduce call quality, it adds delay and increases costs due to fees and taxes," Tehrani said. "Without VoIP peering, a Skype out-call to a Vonage user would have to traverse the . . . public switched telephone network. VoIP peering allows . . . pure IP connections."