| Jeff Pulver | |
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Pulver in 2011 at the Ontario 140Conf |
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| Born | 1962/1963 (age 48–49)[1] |
| Residence | Great Neck, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Internet entrepreneur |
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| pulver.com | |
Jeffrey L. Pulver[2] (born September 12[3]) is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com. He has written extensively on the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of the applications layer of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony.
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Jeff Pulver grew up in Kings Point, New York.[1] He graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1980.[4] While working at a Long Island accounting firm, Pulver founded Spreadsheet Solutions Corp. to market add-ins for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel.[5][6]
Pulver became interested in Internet telephony in 1995, when he was as a systems administrator at Cantor Fitzgerald. He was a co-founder and minority shareholder in Vonage, a VoIP provider based in Edison, New Jersey. Pulver also invented the CellSocket, a device to make and receive cellular voice calls via a standard phone. He was listed as a BusinessWeek Tech Guru in 2003.[1]
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 Internet Protocol (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.
Today he concentrates on the field of Internet Video or IP Video. He was profiled in 2006 by The Wall Street Journal, discussing his visions about both voice and video communications via the Internet.[7] Pulver also organizes a conference series, held in various locations around the world, called 140conf (140 Characters Conference). He is an investor in startup companies.
Jeff Pulver resides in Great Neck, New York, with his twin sons Dylan and Jake.[8] He also spent time in Remsenburg, New York.[9]