Andy Abramson I love it when the wave of humor descends on an industry. VoIP is Irrelevant, shouts the headline in a Phone+/VON web site story today. Catchy. Witty. Snarky. Yes to all three. Because we know VoIP is irrelevant as it has converged each day, deeper and deeper into the calling experience of so many people. … Read more
Stuart has taken either a bayonet or a surgeon’s blade to the recent announcement/attempt by Jajah to catch onto the wave of hype surrounding Twitter. It is a masterfully written post, that only someone who has spent the time to really care about what can be done, and truly studied the possibilities could author. I’ll … Read more
From the outset, as an early adopter, I’m very intrigued by the prospect of mobile WiMax, and even more excited about fixed WiMax. The two big players in those games are Clearwire in mobile, and Open Range in fixed. Well despite the hype, the always very much user oriented DSL Reports, has a post today … Read more
In what has to be a very broad swipe at AT&T, Verizon chief Ivan Seidenberg is basically telling the investment community to cut the copper cord and get on a fiber or copper light diet. In a speech yesterday Seidenberg disclosed that he may have been a tad behind the curve in realizing what the … Read more
Knowing the news and sharing the news is always a challenge for me, especially when the company involved is a client. For close to two weeks I’ve been in the know about XConnect’s founder and CEO Eli Katz successful closing of their Series B round, but my lips were sealed and my fingers tapped together. … Read more
Hot on the heels of the HD Voice Summit in New York this week, it seems that a Moldavia mobile operator is rolling out HD Voice on a Nokia handset, or so reports Telco 2.0. This follows client Voxbone’s announcement to embed HD Voice in their network, something that Robert Poe does a very good … Read more
BT over in London are opening what are being labeled, broadband shops, to show off their new fiber to the cabinet service that delivers 40 meg connections into the home. In years gone by, the cable operators had town by town customer service locations, but those have gone bye bye for the most part. Given … Read more
Sprint is rolling out it’s 4G service as fast as it can and to prove it they have announced the 3G/4G dongle/broadband modem. Right now it’s Windows only, but I have to figure a Macintosh version will be out soon. One thing to note, is that 4G broadband is unlimited, while 3G has transfer capacity … Read more
MobileCrunch and others are reporting that Sprint may be bought by T-Mobile. For the Record- I prognosticated that one almost two years ago here on VoIPWatch, suggesting that the German owned operator was a better fit. Now let me elaborate on the scenarios that I think would play out: 1) T-Mobile buys Sprint-plans to migrate … Read more
Markus Goebel wants to only make free or almost free calls, and I can’t blame him. I mean, why pay if someone will give it away, and in his post he takes a consoling tone about Skype and their flushing of their Extra’s program last week, on 9-11 of all days. So while the UBER … Read more
