"Popular online applications like gaming, Voice over IP (VoIP) and HD video are some of the most sensitive to latency and packet loss over Wi-Fi connections, " said Bigfoot Networks CEO Michael Howse.

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The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor responds to this need by delivering a number of industry first innovations: simultaneous 3-microphone processing, optimized Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Mobile Audio Zoom and Super Wideband support for Voice over IP (VoIP), combined with a robust audio codec designed specifically for the newest mobile devices.

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The delivery of voice calls using VoLTE is similar to the voice over IP, or VOIP, phone services offered by many cable and Internet-service providers.

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"The chairman has done the voice over IP industry wonders, " says Jeff Pulver, chief executive of Free World Dialup , a VoIP service provider which in February was the subject of one of Powell's salutary FCC rulings.

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Looks like the unsecure rap Voice over IP was getting before is pretty irrelevant now, as the FCC ruled today five to zip that VoIP communications must always be tappable.

ENGADGET: FCC votes 5-0 to tap VoIP calls