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| name = FWD |
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| logo = 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 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315222318/http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/003012.html | archive-date=March 15, 2006 | url-status=dead }}</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. |
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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> 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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In the Matter of 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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* [https://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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