SightSpeed DownUnder

SightSpeed has launched a local version in Australia this morning. The key here is local presence and local servers. Given where Australia is, and how the traffic initially will be county or regional specific, the installation of servers will provide the same high quality experience we have come to know and love here in the … Read more

What is Ooma?

Reports are a new VoIP play is coming out of the valley called OOMA. Nice name. Interesting board and a promise to do for telephony what Napster did for music.

Vonage Races to the Bottom

Tom Keating finds out that Vonage is pursuing a very cheap monthly pricing strategy to retain users. This is called “churn prevention” and is much like running a charge twice on a credit card knowing that it will be 30-60 days before the error is caught and credited. It makes the numbers appear better, but … Read more

The Myth of VoIP Resellers

Rich has a very thought provoking post about VoIP resellers. I’ll concur that he does one heck of a job at bringing the resellers together at the TMCnet Internet Telephony conferences. As a matter of fact he likely does the best job of telling the world that resellers will be at their conferences. There’s one … Read more

Om’s Integrity Is Always There

I am outraged that anyone would question my good friend Om’s credibility, integrity and objectivity as Valleywag and a few others chose to do. Om today bared his soul in a post in response in a very professional way. Given both my professional, personal and blogger relationship with him for now over three years I … Read more

Why Has Vonage Been Quiet?

Why has Vonage gotten quiet? Companies that operate in the public eye on an almost daily basis with publicity and ongoing outreach from their inception that all of a sudden go very quiet makes me wonder if something is up. Why do I say that? Vonage for years has put out press releases almost weekly, … Read more