Andy Abramson Truphone users, which I’m one of on my Nokia E61, will be happy to know that yesterday the UK based company expanded their free calling program to the USA. This means that Truphone users here in the fifty states can make calls to forty countries for FREE. At the same time, JaJah announced they crossed … Read more
Mike Snyder, the CEO of Vonage thinks the doomsday media predicting the demise of Vonage may be wrong, and they put out a press release saying that yesterday. In PR parlance this is called “Crisis Management” but sound crisis management doesn’t begin when the problem hits. It is practiced every day by being in regular … Read more
CTIA starts today. Think VON Blur on steroids. I’m at CTIA to find what’s hot in mobile these days. Stay tuned.
Now this is a the kind of thing that gets my heart racing and wishing we had something like this here in the good old USA. Using a PCMCIA or Express34 card you can roam between all kinds of wireless networks regardless of flavor via one operator. So how would we do it here? Easy … Read more
The Verizon battle with Vonage over patents in many ways reminds me of the tortoise and the hare. Sure that an old fable for children, but when one looks at Verizon one can only see the slower moving, hard shell the company puts out. But this is more like a cartoon, or soap opera. Consider … Read more
My instincts tell me that there is more to the Verizon/Vonage battle. I’ll have some thoughts later in the day.
The USA Federal Court system has ruled that the fifty states do not have a say about regulating VoIP.
Congrats to pal Steve Howe Earthlink’s number one in voice. He just got promoted to Senior VP for Voice….
It looks like the big carries and some upstarts are starting to work closer together. Today Lavalife and Level3 announced they are working together as did GrandCentral with GlobalCrossing. Client VoEX announced their SuperPops today and SuperRegistry yesterday that was covered by Khali Henderson of Xchange Magazine. Digium pushed out their final beta of AsteriskNow … Read more
Niklas Zennstrom, Skype founder was there to kick of the day and we got to talk later in the evening face to face. The night ended with my having dinner at 9 PM by laptop at the Grill on the the Alley. In between, my second day at VON was packed with meetings with clients … Read more
