Vonage co-founder
Jeff Pulver, WA2BOT, recently credited ham radio as one of the major factors
behind his role in developing the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
technology that allows thousands of people to use the internet as their
long-distance phone service.
According to an
article in VentureBeat.com, Pulver told an audience at the TwiloCon convention
in San Francisco in September that amateur radio "unlocked my connection
to voice over IP," and that his career in software began with writing a
ham radio logging program.
