Andy Abramson

Ken Camp has produced what will be a monthly VoIP podcast and I’m one of the talking heads.  Other bloggers sharing an opinion includeAlec Saunders, Ted Wallingford, and Dameon Welch-Abernathy.

Ken Camp and James Enck have the jump in the blogosphere on BridgePort Networks landing a huge deal with Siemens for the NomadicOne solution that is being put into Siemens IMS offerings. That means GSM and CDMA carriers and the cable guys will all be able to play nice in moving calls between networks in … Read more

In a very expected move, AOL has added a phone line to its very popular AIM Messenger as part of their Triton project. Tabbed as AIM PhoneLine (what a great name) , now you’ll be able to punch out the digits and talk, going well beyond just tapping away at the keys with Messenger. This … Read more

Mark Sullivan of LightReading has a good story about MuniWireless and Google today over on LightReading that makes some people wonder how serious Google is about Muni-WiFi. I think this is all stealth marketing and the real end game has yet to be brought to light.

Looks like the cable operators are winning and the Bells are losing when it comes to where the numbers are these days in new subscriber signups. The stat I want to see is how many of these “new” lines are true switch to VoIP from the cable operator or first time installs (i.e. new homes) … Read more

Ken Camp organized a great first call on Monday and Ted has a nice recap of what we went through. The podcast should be up soon. While we’re only supposed to do this on a monthly basis, I think as more breaking news occurs, and as time permits multimedia will become a bigger part of … Read more

Both Skype and Gizmo are jumping into the conference biz? Why? Like Willy Sutton said when asked why he robbed banks? Because that’s where the money is.

I’m a bit late on this but Thomas Anglero, over on Telecom’s Tsunami has a very good post on the impact that the i-Pass deals mean and how FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) is happening and who the players are.

Rich does a very good job of telling us all about the new features found in Skype 2.5. While he’s been typing away I’ve had a few in the know tech types tell me more about SkypeCast. A SkypeCast entity is a special phone number skype:+990 01110002544315 When parsing this, you ignore the skype: that … Read more

I caught up with uber-blogger Stowe Boyd at OnHollywood yesterday and he had his VON shirt on. I have offered to wear a Stowe shirt at VON…but in thinking, it should be a beret!