Another proof point of VoIP's uptake: VoIP has made it in Jeopardy! It wasn't the final Jeopardy question, and the contestant got the answer only partially right (albeit host Alex Trebek gave credit for the partial answer). I guess the next step is for a company like Vonage to get a famous sports star or actor to advertise its VoIP plan, and after that nobody else will deny that VoIP has really become a mainstream technology.  Paul Brent wrote about the story on today's National Post (note: unfortunately, the story is only available to subscribers, so when you click on the link, you will be prompted for your username and password ID).  Since I happen to be a subscriber, there have been some folks that have asked me to repost it, but I did not want to violate any copyrights, so I will not reprint the story entirely (unless somebody from the National Post can give me explicit approval for this).  Here is just one excerpt with the details from the program:

VoIP, the tech-heavy acronym thrown about by telecommunications executives as shorthand for voice over Internet protocol, has gone mainstream in a big way.

This week VoIP served as an answer in the TV game show Jeopardy and the college-aged contestant providing the answer got it nearly correct: "Voice ... Internet ... protocol." Host Alex Trebek gave credit for the partial answer.


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