A site launched by a well placed VoIP network watcher went up over the weekend. According to a note from the founder, Level3 is building out a VoIP plant for Ford Motor Company, and their “Do Not Dig” signs are going up all along the Longmont Diagonal, near the IBM facilities near Boulder Colorado. Does … Read more
A new 600 caller conference bridge, and a platform with capacity for 12,000 or so caller was announced by Vapps. That’s a serious SIP application.
I can hear it now, when users log on to AOL, they won’t just hear, “You’ve Got Mail” they will also hear “You’ve Got Messages.” That’s because AOL is in need of someone to manage their VoIP efforts as it seems they are getting ready to move into the VoIP space in 2005. They certainly … Read more
Jeff calls Verizon, and others like, them Parasites in a post found on his blog today. The lack of originality in the VoIP market is really amazing to me. Originality is disruptive. Me too is boring. While I can see offerings from smaller ISP’s that ride on the Level3 network and not call them boring, … Read more
The New York Times has a story in their Sunday edition about VoIP. My guess is the number of 300,000 users in the USA is likely lower than reality. Vonage is over 200,000 already according to their announced figures, and with all the others being so aggressive, such as Packet8 and AT&T Call Vantage, I … Read more
Well after some doing, I finally got the XyZEL Prestige 2000 WiFi SIP handset working. About the size of a candy bar style cell phone, I could not get it to work with either the Microsoft 802.11g or Netgear Travel router (bummer) as it could not pick up the DHCP, so I went out and … Read more
Skype, which is in the news with their carrier deals, has quietly announced a new version which fixes some bugs and adds some new features like file transfer, file uploading and more. As I read this, one has to really question the genius management at AOL/Time Warner a few years back. They basically could have … Read more
Read the last line. Classic. Much of the rest of the story is already known or expressed here and elsewhere, like GigaOm by Om Malik.
Engadget has a report about the new Vonage WiFi phone and a report the next generation of the Treo Handspring, the 610, will be a WiFi ready phone for Vonage. This circles back to the Vonage relationship with Texas Instruments and other chip manufacturers announced earlier.
I’ll be playing around with the Packet8 VideoPhone next week, as I’ve had a house guest from Rome and she’s much more fun to spend time with than VideoPhones, but it looks like Packet8 has some competition according to a post on Engadget.
