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Tom Evslin

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Tom Evslin's career has taken him from nerd to CEO to novelist and consultant with a brief stop as Transportation Secretary for the State of Vermont. His novel hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble is available free online and for purchase from Amazon and other outlets. A short story "The Interpreter's Tale" can be downloaded as an Amazon Short. His popular blog Fractals of Change is at blog.tomevslin.com. Evslin was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world's leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant. At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange's predecessor Microsoft Mail. Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc. (a software company he founded and he and Mary ran) were sold to Microsoft. In the 1970s Solutions developed the first commercial EFT software for banks. In the 1980s Solutions was the first developer of commercial communications software for the Macintosh. Evslin is a member of the Board of Directors of The Snelling Center for Government and of ShoreCap Exchange. In the private sector, he is a board member of FeedBlitz LLC. For many years Evslin was Policy Chairman of the Voice on the Net Coalition and a member of the organization's Board of Directors. Evslin is an inventor on six granted US patents.

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2021 - Sep 14	on	Starlink Beta vs. Fiber
2018 - Jan 17	on	The End of Net Neutrality Regulation COULD Mean the End of Last-Mile Oligopolies
2011 - May 26	on	Planning for the Ugly End of the Phone Network
2011 - May 26	on	Planning for the Ugly End of the Phone Network
2011 - May 04	on	LTE Insufficient from the Start, Boingo IPO Propitious
2009 - Jan 06	on	WiMAX vs. WiFi
2008 - Dec 17	on	Net Neutrality and the Obama Stimulus Package
2008 - Dec 16	on	Net Neutrality and the Obama Stimulus Package

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Broadband , Wireless , Access Providers , Net Neutrality , Mobile Internet , White Space , Telecom , Policy & Regulation , P2P , VoIP , Cybersecurity , Networks , Web , Censorship , IPTV , Cloud Computing , Data Center , Threat Intelligence , Coronavirus , Cyberattack , Satellite Internet ,

Tom Evslin

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Recent Blogs

Kyiv Independent Reports on Starlink in Ukraine

Starlink to Go - Stress Tested in Ukraine and Now Available to You

Starlink’s zoomready Rating Is Going Down

Now Available: Worldwide and Local Current Starlink Performance

Starlink Beta vs. Fiber

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