Andy Abramson So here’s the story out of the Red Herring saying the sky is falling on VoIP and VoIP companies. I don’t think so. 1) Verizon could license the technology. $58 million dollars is less than 10 million a year. Vonage’s spend is less than that per week on Marketing. 2) Other companies likely have technology … Read more
I am constantly amazed that just because an FCC rule is passed that people think that marketing efforts will be curtailed based on some rules to prohibit information sharing between partners. Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of direct marketing knows that consumer profiling can be done with cross tabbing multiple data sources from … Read more
If you care at all about Cisco then make sure you read the series of posts by analyst/blogger and pal Jon Arnold from the Las Vegas Cisco Partner Summit. But Jon. With all the wonderful visuals Las Vegas has to offer…can you take some more “attractive” photos with the Nokia N93… 🙂
When I was in London recently I saw the SSID for this river side WiFi cloud. It is a very ambitious project, but it’s not a mesh network, which is why it will work very well with Voice and Video. They’re using Bel Air access points just like Cheetah Wireless is doing in Las Vegas.
Everyone is counting Vonage out, and I’m not exactly not doing that, but while I think that they are not that far from dead, I do believe the current company as it sits is in huge trouble, which is stating the obvious. 2.2 million customers at an average of 20 dollars a month is 40 … Read more
I’m continually amazed that in advertising companies get away with calling anything “unlimited” when really the reality of the offer is that there is a bottom or a top. Mr. Blog draws attention to this with the EvDO plan from Verizon that Wired News has clarified what it is. Basically, you get to surf the … Read more
Alec Saunders has written a really tasty post about how to work best with and against Microsoft. His post entitled “Akido, Retreat or War. What’s Your Microsoft strategy” is a must read and dead on the mark. It’s causing quite a bit of commentary too. Skype Journal’s Jim Courtney and Ken Camp at Digital Common … Read more
ZDNet’s Dan Farber and Larry Dignan have a column on what options people may have who end up out of luck if Vonage goes down. While conventional wisdom may lean towards the local cable MSOs, it seems the early adopter type readers of ZDNet would favor another VoIP player. In my view this is excellent … Read more
The latest tonight is that Vonage received a stay of execution….the release tells it all….from the Vonage perspective.
As background I was a huge fan of Helio from the start. I believed that Sky Dayton was onto something. In the beginning I received press releases, media kits and everything and I became even more impressed. Then, the info stopped flowing. Now it seems to have started again. What was funny was now that … Read more
