Martin Geddes

Our number one pick in the 2009 telecom draft, Martin Geddes, has become a free agent. He’s left BT Innovate & Design, where he was head of strategy, to pursue his dreams. Later this week Martin will launch MartinGeddes.com as he is a brand all by himself. Watch for more news as Martin brings his … Read more

Being Quoted More and More

As many of you know, I end up being quoted quite a bit about VOIP, leading the life of a tech savvy road warrior and even sometimes about business travel in general. What you may not know is that I also get cited regularly on business and marketing related matters, and usually they are about … Read more

The Google Phone

Let’s try to clear up the rumor that a Google Phone that reportedly is coming out in January. That is if you can believe any blog that tells you its a rumor. First of, one has to expect that the phone would not be for the traditional mobile network. Honestly if I was Google I’d … Read more

iPhone Observation #2

Why does my iPhone run through battery power on AT&T like a hot knife through butter but in Spain on Orange the battery life is far better. Well at least with 3G data off. My guess is that the 3G radio in the iPhone and the sparse number of AT&T towers, or under capacity, leads … Read more

Time Off

It was Coffee Time. Now it’s wine time. I’m in Madrid so that means tapas, tavernas and tasty times.

Say Hello To The Skype Pipe

Skype for SIP is now live and in my view Skype just created a massive pipe into the corporate market. While some may immediately want to draw unfair comparisons to SIP Trunking, I’d dubbed this the “Skype Pipe” as in all reality now Skype has the pipe into the business phone market that have for … Read more

First It Was Localphone.com and Now We See Super-Phone

It looks like with Google’s buying of Gizmo that the world of SIP origination and termination via anyone who has the ability to be a SIP or Asterisk based origination and termination player will rise to the surface. Earlier this week we saw the arrival of Localphone.com and now it’s Super-Phone.com which is offering voice … Read more

iPhone 3GS Batter Life

As an experiment I turned on my fully charged iPhone at 1000 AM today. After three hours of very light use I am now at 65% of battery life left compared to 90% on my Droid which is seeing heavy use. By that I mean I have push turned off on the iPhone while the … Read more

LTE and Voice Calling

Wireless Moves has a very good summary of just how many voice calls can travel over LTE compared to GSM, UMTS and HSPA. The key though in reading the post is in the summary: The numbers are stunning and offer interesting opportunities in the future. According to these numbers LTE is 10 times more efficient … Read more