{"id":511,"date":"2004-09-06T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2004-09-06T00:01:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T00:01:05","slug":"voip_with_local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"VOIP, with local Madison numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/biz\/index.php?ntid=9607&#038;ntpid=2\">Judy Newman<\/a> notes that some Voice over IP providers do not support 608 telephone numbers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packet8.net\">Packet8<\/a>, a small Santa Clara firm, does.  There are indeed tradeoffs, but given the explosion in cellphones (we seem to have more than one phone number these days), VOIP is ideal for residential users &#8211; or, perhaps, give fast growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a> a try. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/05\/business\/yourmoney\/05tech.html?ex=1252036800&#038;en=8fa50cce785ea6c5&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\"> James Fallows finds<\/a> much to like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judy Newman notes that some Voice over IP providers do not support 608 telephone numbers. Packet8, a small Santa Clara firm, does. There are indeed tradeoffs, but given the explosion in cellphones (we seem to have more than one phone number these days), VOIP is ideal for residential users &#8211; or, perhaps, give fast growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}