{"id":1683,"date":"2005-08-19T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2005-08-19T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T00:00:26","slug":"voip_users_soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"VOIP Users Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/T\/TECHBITS_VOIP_USAGE?SITE=OKPON&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Brian Bergstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The number of consumers bypassing the traditional phone network and opting for Internet voice service is soaring beyond expectations.<br \/>\nAn analysis by the TeleGeography research group found 2.7 million subscribers nationwide in the second quarter, compared with just 440,000 a year earlier.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packet8.net\">Packet8<\/a> for a couple of years &#8211; quite successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Bergstein: The number of consumers bypassing the traditional phone network and opting for Internet voice service is soaring beyond expectations. An analysis by the TeleGeography research group found 2.7 million subscribers nationwide in the second quarter, compared with just 440,000 a year earlier. I&#8217;ve used Packet8 for a couple of years &#8211; quite successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}