New Canadian Telecom Newsletter Offers Analysis

Hat tip to pal Jon Arnold who led to my discovery of a new newsletter focused on the telecom action in Canada. With companies like iotum, Mobivox, Lypp and EQO in the spotlight more and more from the realm of startup, to companies like EyeBeam, Nortel and other “public” companies all making Canada home, this … Read more

Why FMC Is USA Centric Today

Dean Bubley’s view point on Fixed Mobile Convergence is one I have been following closely for the past few years. His recent post on FMC and how it relates to the Enterprise is one for the books and needs a read. Dean points out that the favorable bucket of minutes in the USA and the … Read more

News Out Of Skype

this just in On September 22, 2007, Skype reached its 20 millionth registered user in North America, doubling from 10 million registered users in just over the last 12 months. Or think about it this way – nearly 10 percent of the more than 232 million Internet users in North America have now downloaded and … Read more

News and Notes for Thursday September 27 2007

In what could possibly be a longterm blow to MagicJack, i2Telecom looks like they are on their way to winning a few patents on their VoiceStick technology. When I spoke with Magic Jack’s folks a few weeks ago I raised the similarity to i2Telecom’s USB implementation, but they seemed to be unmoved by the assertion. … Read more

David Pogue on Cubic Telecom

David Pogue story on Cubic Telecom is out today in the New York Times. He points out numerous pros and cons to the new service from blogger Pat Phelan. It’s not all glowing, and appears very balanced showing me that Pogue really did use the service before writing the review. This service looks appealing to … Read more

Have You Taken The Telco 2.0 Survey?

If you’re a part of the VOIP, Mobile or Telecom economy and have a viewpoint or perspective the Telco 2.0 Survey is one of few the must take surveys around that I endorse. The folks at STL who put on Telco 2.0 are some of the brightest and most insightful consultants around. Their upcoming event … Read more

Truiphone Shown At DEMO-UPDATED

Its only fitting that in the land of wireless phones and mobile technology, San Diego, the folks at Truphone came to play. And play they did at DEMO showing of a range of new devices that their mobile VoIP technology will be working on in  the future, for that is the essence of DEMO. The … Read more

Demo Has Broadband Baby

As DEMO officially starts this morning I’m overjoyed by the WiFI bandwidth that I’m seeing. This is a conference done right. Close to six megs down, and over 1.5 megs up…but the key is less than 15% latency for the round trip to the Speakeasy test site in Los Angeles found via speedtest.net Remember…all broadband … Read more