Level3 Communications (LVLT) has put their foot forward, joining other VoIP pioneers like Jeff Pulver of Free World DialUp in asking the FCC for decisions on the whole idea of Access and Termination charges related to VoIP and PSTN calls. In making the request to the FCC, Level3 has basically said–we’re getting ready to play … Read more
Last year Vonage was out in force at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This year it seems the competition will be too. In a business where “I can do better than you” and a “can you top this” mentality rages, Packet8 Networks has fired a shot across the bow for all VoIP carriers to follow. … Read more
It looks like Vonage is heading to Ireland and the UK. One of the hurdles they’ll run into in the UK is Ofcom, the UK’s version of the FCC. Their efforts to expand are a natural progression. I know of a few ex-pat’s who are using Vonage already in places like Australia, Israel and in … Read more
Well, for starters, the headline’s wrong in the January 5th New York Times story about Voice over IP. So, while the rest of the article presents some facts, it seems the big issue, and maybe the only issue that anyone comes up with as a reason not to go VoIP is 911 service. Funny, no … Read more
It seems the story about how in love with Voice over IP is has become an everyday occurrence, and now even the industry publications are “selling” the story of “selling through” the service. So what does this mean to the telcos? That answer is easy…Video on Demand. I’ve been watching the YankeeNet and ESPN contract … Read more
VoIP uber Evangelist, Jeff Pulver in his personal blog explained that Marketing will be the key effort that the carriers will need to put behind their efforts to convert customers to Voice over IP. Give Pulver credit for taking on the cause. His FreeWorldDialup which enables free calls to other FWD subscribers and as a … Read more
Ken Rutkowski, with whom I co-host the daily “World Technology RoundUp” on KenRadio pointed me to a story today in Nikkei Electronics Asia quoting Louis Holder of Vonage on the subject of E911. While basically rehashing what Vonage has been saying on this subject since it began offering a method to reach the emergency services … Read more
Dennis Berman in the December 29th Wall Street Journal (subscription required) explains that the current VoIP offering from the USA based legacy carriers is really not much more than hype, as all the carriers are offering is dial tone and basic services over IP vs analog. Berman accurately points out that the carriers have only … Read more
Xeni Jardin in Wired Magazine’s, January 2004 edition provides a very entry level review of some of the Voice Over IP Services that are out there but leaves out some of the players and totally excludes how to get the Voice onto the Internet. By lumping Vonage, Sipphone, Skype and Free World DialUp together and … Read more
I’ve been playing with the softphones that are out there with the carriers I’m currently subscribed to. Overall, the easiest to use are from Vonage. Delta Three’s iConnectHere service or Jeff Pulver’s Free World Dial Up’s customized softphone client, X-Ten Light. All that said, the X-Ten Pro softphone may provide the most functionality of all. … Read more
