Mobivox Under The Jon Arnold Microscope

Analyst blogger, Jon Arnold, takes a close look at Mobivox, a service whose premise I like a lot. Why? First it really does lower cost of calling. Second it shows that David Beckemeyer’s vision of PhoneGnome and voice applications is being adopted by others. Third Mobivox is agnostic. It doesn’t care if your on Skype … Read more

Will Carriers Block EQO?

It’s one thing to run VoIP over WiFi on a cell phone like can be done with GizmoProject and Truphone, but to expect the carriers to sit idle and just watch calls run over data networks on all you can eat data plans is something that I expect to not go very far. While EQO … Read more

Vonage Quality Called Into Question

The folks at Gaboogie know there VoIP. One of the issues they face is the call quality issue between all the different access providers. In doing their research they’ve found that Vonage isn’t really cutting the mustard in the quality department. That’s no surprise. Vonage uses the open “Public” internet and has never contended that … Read more

Gizmo Disrupts Calling Pricing Again

I just got the word from the folks at GizmoProject’s parent company, SipPhone that they have taken a page out of the books of Mint Telecom and others that let you establish a phone number in one location and have it ring in another. Okay. Not much new about that. But here’s the kicker. It’s … Read more

Skype Love Lost

No, I didn’t confuse Skype with Vonage. What happened is Mobile Diva and non-broadband blogger Darla Mack came to a realization after spending time with a bunch of Nokia Nseries devices most of which work with Gizmo Project. It seems she’s come to the same conclusion others have come to. With Gizmo Project and others … Read more

Open Mouth, Insert Foot

The investors in Fonality should be laughing all the way to the bank. This story about Nortel is a classic example of great reporting and lousy PR. Congrats to Tom Keating for making such a spectacle out of Nortel.