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| name = FWD |
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| logo = [[File:Free World Dialup (logo).png]] |
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| type = Private |
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| fate = defunct, domain was advertising siptosip.net in 2010, is now reassigned |
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| founder = [[Jeff Pulver]]<br>Brandon Lucas<br>Izak Jenie<br>Jefferey Woods |
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| defunct = 2008 (free service), 2010 (paid version) |
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'''FWD''' (originally '''Free World Dialup''') was a [[Voice over Internet Protocol]] (VoIP) network and business venture owned by Pulver.com, Inc. and founded in 1994 by [[Jeff Pulver]], Brandon Lucas, and Izak Jenie. It appears to have ceased operations in 2010 |
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The service provided voice communications between its subscribers worldwide, based on [[Internet]] standards. Limited inter-connections to the [[public switched telephone network]] (PSTN) provided users the ability to receive [[direct inward dialing|direct-dialed]] calls from PSTN-[[landline]] users, as well as place calls to toll-free numbers in the [[United States]] and other countries. |
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Pursuant to a ruling by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) on February 12, 2004, the [[Federal Communications Commission#Bureaus|Wireline Competition Bureau]] considered FWD to be an information service rather than a [[telecommunications]] service.<ref>{{cite web | title=FCC Rules on Pulver's Free World Dialup VOIP Service | work=Tech Law Journal | url=http://www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2004/20040212b.asp | accessdate=November 13, 2005 }}</ref> This ruling followed a [[petition]] by Pulver.com on February 5, 2003 seeking a declaration of this nature.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} A similar petition by [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]] remains under consideration.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} |
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On September 27, 2005, the company changed its name from Free World Dialup to FWD.<ref>{{cite web | title=Free World Dialup renamed to FWD | work=The Jeff Pulver Blog | url=http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/003012.html | accessdate=November 13, 2005 }}</ref> A [[servicemark]] for the new name was granted on April 20, 2004. According to the registration record, the servicemark was not an [[acronym]]: the letters stood for nothing at all. The company later removed all references to ''Free World Dialup'' from their website, although the domain name www.freeworlddialup.com still resolved to the site until 2010. |
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FWD was connected to other VoIP networks by IPeerX, a VoIP peering company which spun off from FWD. Pulver sold IPeerX to [[Xconnect]] in 2006;<ref>{{cite web | title=XConnect Takes Out Pulver's IPeerX |
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| work=[[Light Reading]] | url=http://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/ip-protocols-software/xconnect-takes-out-pulvers-ipeerx/d/d-id/631926 | date=2006-09-12}}</ref> the former IPeerX Internet domain is now [[cybersquatting|cybersquatted]]. By 2009, Free World Dialup had closed ''open'' enrollment of new members "to focus on HD content and services".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siptosip.net/|title=Why SIP to SIP VoIP?|publisher=Free World Dialup|quote=Free World Dialup closed open enrollment for SIP registration and membership in order to focus on High Definition (HD) VoIP content and services. |accessdate=2009-04-23}}</ref> |
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==Annual charge== |
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On August 8, 2008, the company announced they would charge a $30 (US) annual membership fee. Following the implementation of a membership fee the service ran into technical issues eventually resulting in it going offline completely. |
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==FCC decision== |
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FCC Commissioner Michael Copps was quoted as stating the following upon the FCC decision to characterize FWD's service as an information service: "''Despite attempts to characterize this Order as limited to the specific facts of Pulver.com's FWD, I am concerned that the decision speaks much more expansively. By deciding the statutory classification of Pulver.com's service as an interstate information service, the Order raises a host of questions about the continuing relevance of those most fundamental telecommunications policy objectives that Congress has entrusted to this Commission.''"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-27A1.pdf|title= |
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Petition for Declaratory Ruling that pulver.com’s Free World Dialup is Neither Telecommunications Nor a Telecommunications Service |publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=2004-02-04|accessdate=2015-04-28}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20080705092057/http://freeworlddialup.com www.freeworlddialup.com] (Official website on the [[Wayback Machine]], the domain appears to have been reassigned as an individual blog) |
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* [http://pulver.com/ Pulver.com], official site |
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[[Category:VoIP companies of the United States]] |
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[[Category:Defunct VoIP companies]] |
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