UK: Is Carphone Warehouse Your Next Telco?

One of the things I believe is that wireless (i.e. mobile phone) carriers will be your next all encompassing telco. In the UK, as James Enck points out in his EuroTelcoBlog, Carphone Warehouse is doing just that. When you look at the USA’s wireless companies they have all they need to be just that, when … Read more

HTC Has PDA w/WiFi/GPRS/BT Coming Soon

Reports out of Taiwan are that HTC, the folks who made T-Mobile’s XDA in the USA, have phone coming that is built on the Pocket PC platform. It will will have Windows Mobile Second Edition, 64 megs of Program Memory, 64 Megs of Storage memory, on board WiFi and Bluetooth, GPRS network access, plus the … Read more

BT Cuts Prices

BT is cutting prices on Broadband Telephony. In an email today, noted Eurotelcoblog author James Enck said: BT Group has, in our opinion, the most forward-looking management team and strategy in the sector, probably globally, but the problem the company faces is that visibility is very, very poor – both in terms of the competitive … Read more

Signs MCI Making Major Move into VoIP

MCI, which in the last century became the first major player in alternative long distance carrier is signaling the market that they are about to be a major player in VoIP, either as a wholesale carrier or a business and consumer service. Their announcement today about raising their SLA guarantee has to be interpreted that … Read more

Ecuity To Roll Out Virtual PBX

Ecuity, a Washington state based company is rolling out a virtual PBX service based on the Intel backed venture, TelSym. This market sector is heating up very quickly. Already active or announced in the space is Packet8, Covad’s GoBeam and Voice Glo, with more sure to follow. But the Ecuity offering, when live, proposes to … Read more

Malta Ponders VoIP

Malta, one of the jewels of the Med, and a tax haven for some, is pondering how to legislate VoIP. As you can see, more countries around the world are looking how to keep control via the PTT’s or through licensed/tarrif based carriers. In my opinion those countries that over regulate will fall prey to … Read more

VoIP Official In Africa Soon?

A report on IT Web, about the best South African tech web site has a very concise view of what will soon happen in Africa. For years many African countries have been behind in allowing the advances of the Internet to be considered legal. As the article points out, a grey market has evolved. Given … Read more

Viper Network Takes on Brazil

Viper Networks, based in my backyard in San Diego announced a win in Brazil. Viper, which is rather tightlipped other than in issuing press releases, seems to be building a business based on either installations with carriers who can sell their VoIP service or through resellers. They remain a company to watch.

Level3 On a Roll

Level3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) announced earnings today. They also announced customer wins. What Level3 is clearly doing is building upon their past, and in some cases, long term relationships in the data and streaming business are coming around to be VoIP customers. AOL’s Moviefone on VoIP means costs get lower for AOL. That’s really important for … Read more