Internet Phones: Please Wait for the Next Available Opportunity - New York Times

Internet Phones: Please Wait for the Next Available Opportunity - New York Times: "The prospect of modernizing the telephone seems close because broadband services have solved the so-called last-mile problem, bringing relatively fast Internet connections from local switching centers and cable offices into customers' homes. But connecting home phones to the Internet — spanning the last foot and a half — remains a problem, unless one subscribes to one of the new Internet phone services offered by cable companies here and there."

Timely VoIP reality check by Randall Stross.