{"id":3281,"date":"2005-05-01T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/voip-still-not-parasitic.html"},"modified":"2005-05-01T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T14:29:51","slug":"voip-still-not-parasitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/voip-still-not-parasitic.html","title":{"rendered":"VoIP Still Not Parasitic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\">The whole notion that VoIP service should be called parasitic is lost on me. In many cases, VoIP is the reason people purchase broadband and as such I would consider it symbiotic. Why don&#8217;t we call Google a parasitic search? Hotmail, a parasitic e-mail service? iTunes a parasitic music service. Get the point? Whoever decided the term parasitic should be applied to VoIP has done the industry a disservice.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an extended <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/voip-not-parasitic.html\">rant<\/a> on the subject:<\/font><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole notion that VoIP service should be called parasitic is lost on me. In many cases, VoIP is the reason people purchase broadband and as such I would consider it symbiotic. Why don&#8217;t we call Google a parasitic search? Hotmail, a parasitic e-mail service? iTunes a parasitic music service. Get the point? Whoever decided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}