Jeff Pulver
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Pulver at SXSW 2014
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| Born | September 12, 1962 |
| Residence | Great Neck, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Internet entrepreneur |
| Call-sign | WA2BOT |
| Website | pulver |
Jeff Pulver is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com and co-founder of Free World Dialup, Vonage, MoNage, Alchemist, and Zula (app). Pulver has been called a pioneer, and has written extensively on VoIP telephony, and the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of its applications layer.
Jeff Pulver grew up in Kings Point, New York, and was graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1980. While working at a Long Island accounting firm, Pulver founded Spreadsheet Solutions Corp. to market add-ins for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel.
A licensed amateur radio operator since the age of 12, Pulver holds the call sign WA2BOT, and credits the hobby with sparking his interest in internet technology, saying, "it was amateur radio that unlocked [my] connection to voice over IP”.
He became interested in Internet telephony in 1995, when he was as a systems administrator at Cantor Fitzgerald. Pulver was co-founder and minority shareholder in Vonage, a VoIP provider based in Edison, New Jersey. Pulver invented the CellSocket, a device to make and receive cellular voice calls via a standard phone, and was listed as a BusinessWeek Tech Guru in 2003. Pulver is the chief writer of what is referred to as the Pulver Order, which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first FCC ruling regarding (IP) communications. The order ruled that computer-to-computer VoIP is not a telecommunications service. He coined the term purple minutes to describe value-added IP network traffic. Considered one of the leading experts in the field of streaming audio and video technologies, Pulver has been called a pioneer in VoIP telephony. He was profiled in 2006 by The Wall Street Journal, discussing his visions about both voice and video communications via the Internet.
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