My father taught me the impossible we do right away, but a miracle, that takes a little longer.
Until today I had never flown on a WiFi 2.0 enabled plane, though I was a regular flier internationally on flights equipped with the older version from Boeing, but of course longtime readers know that I proved making voice calls is possible when Laptop Magazine Princess Netbook, Joanna Stern and I had a call using Phweet and a Flash based telephony app on her American Airlines flight last summer.
Today I made a few calls, one to my Google Voice account checking voice mail and leaving a message and then another over to Skype's PR king, Chaim Haas of Kaplow PR. Chaim and I talked over Skype first for about 45 seconds and then had another call for over a minute. Clearly I could hear Chaim and he could hear me as well all the background noise one has at 37,000 feet.
How did I do it? Skype of course but to help I used a publicly available VPN, called AnchorFree. Again, no hacking. No cracking. Nothing special. Just regularly available applications.
Even though I didn't sound as clear as one would on the ground, it proves that calls can be made. Best of all, I could listen to my voicemail.
Oh, and I also streamed video over Mogulus.com. My team on the ground and Ken Rutkowski all were watching. Talk about Cloud technology....
Hey Andy! Say it with FLOWERS!!! You had done it again, You are VOIP crazy and that's me too, I love your VOIP innovations, keep it on Buddy : )
Posted by: Talkfree7 | May 01, 2009 at 08:17 AM