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BERLIN: Jeff Pulver, a pioneer and promoter of Internet telephony, paused halfway through a sun-dried tomato and basil pizza to consider one of his favorite catchphrases - disruptive technology - innovations that can turn markets upside down and business strategies inside out.
Ten years ago, when telephoning over the Internet was in its infancy, few thought that 7 percent of long-distance international calls from the United States would be made by 2006 using Skype, the world's largest Internet phone operator.
One of the few was Pulver, a stocky, affable native of New York City, whose early support for Internet phoning led to a groundbreaking U.S. legal precedent and a global conference business that will turn more than $15 million in sales this year.
As with Internet telephony, Pulver said that most people today are underestimating the changes broadband Internet and third-generation mobile phone networks are going to bring to the video and film industries. But Pulver said that he got a glimpse this month while on a two- week trip to conferences in Europe and Israel.
"I was in Tel Aviv," said Pulver, 44, wearing jeans, an open-collared shirt and shoes without socks a day before VON Berlin, one of Pulver's conferences, which drew 1,000 people Nov. 6 to Nov. 8. "I wanted to use my Nokia N70 smart phone to make a video call using Orange's 3G network to my kids in the States."
Back at his home in Great Neck, New York, Pulver's twin 12-year-old sons, Dylan and Jake, were sitting in front of a laptop connected to an ordinary DSL network. For most Americans, receiving a video call from a European 3G network is not possible. That is because there are no U.S. 3G networks that are compatible or fast enough to deliver the European stream.