Andy Abramson

Despite reporting a better revenue picture Vonage had their weakest sales quarter in some time. What’s more it seems the cable folks continue to grow their VoIP customer base.

Could this be a sign that the T-Mobile trial in Seattle isn’t faring very well? Or it could just be the denial that VoIP, FMC, UMA and all that is IP is just not really understood very well by T-Mobile.

Peter Zottolo, aka “The SightSpeed Guy” has moved up as he becomes the cohost of the new DirectTV “Fizz Newzz” program. CEO of SightSpeed, Peter Csathy provides his take on the changing talent spotting scene while fellow bloggers Ted Wallingford, Paul Kapustka add additional perspective as well as Jon Arnold’s analyst’s perspective.

While longtime blog readers will not find much new here in this USA Today story, it does provide a state of the VoIP world as the mass media sees it. It would be interesting to hear what the researchers at Level3 have to say about this.

For those of us who ever had a Nokia 9000 series phone in the past and wished it did more, the new E90 announced at 3GSM today may be a dream come true. If TruPhone, AbbeyPhone and GizmoProject can be made to run on this, and if GoodLink comes out running on it as it … Read more

WiFi Net News reports that the WiFi Alliance has certified almost 100 phones that can work on WiFi networks. Some are dual mode, others are WiFi only. My experience has been once you get the phones set up, which is the major hurdle, they tend to work very well.

As I started to read Ted’s very logical but almost to altruistic post about music and iTunes all I kept thinking was of MP3.com which was kidnapped by the music industry through the courts. If the industry, courts and lawsuits hadn’t slowed down MP3.com the idea would be very much alive and well today. Every … Read more

So the story in Stuff.co.nz about JaJah is mostly a rehash of what we know, until you get to the last four paragraphs. It’s there that the story takes a very interesting twist, and that twist is one I have been waiting to have happen. It’s when the carrier starts to fight back using the … Read more

There is no question that Google is looking to justify a significant investment in dark fiber, so while there is some FUD associated with this, I tend to think that there is also a great deal of truth that bandwidth and capacity is getting scarcer, especially for consumers.

Last weekend I wrote a thought piece on the lack of innovation in not only VOIP but in companies and placed the root of the problem at being how marketing is so misunderstood by so many who make new products, services and companies possible. So, when I read Dameon’s thoughtful post about boring hardware, I … Read more