Andy Abramson

Business Week has a chart posted that shows the ramp rate that VoIP is seeing around the globe. If you look closely you’ll see the big year will be 2007 in actual numbers not percentage.

It looks like a British Telecom advertising complaint about ActionTec’s VoSky device was upheld. Seems they don’t like the claims, but really it sounds more like an end around move to slow down the uptake of Skype by BT to me. The contention is that VoSky’s advert didn’t mention the need for broadband and an … Read more

Jeff isn’t the only person getting exceited about Video on the web. Besides client SightSpeed who will be one of the featured demonstrators at this year’s On Hollywood event in May, I’m also getting jazzed about some other companies that provide either the picks and shovels or serve as the general store to deliver video … Read more

Om speculates that Yahoo won’t get into the WiFi business with Boingo. The reason it could happen is that Yahoo is all about having access partners, and Boingo would be one of those as Yahoo loves what I call on ramp partners. WiFi is another way to access Yahoo. While he points out that Yahoo … Read more

The Daily India has a story today that calls Skype onto the carpet citing poor customer service. Since I always go through the PR team to get answers or to solve problems both in the Kelly/Kat era pre-eBay and today I can’t relate on an apples to apple basis since media types always seem to … Read more

The Financial Times has a very insightful story about Skype censoring content in China.

I’m starting another week, this time flying back to San Diego for a week of Southern California efforts. I’m at the Sacramento Airport and using their new free WiFi service. All I did was open my laptop and the browser and I was online. So far the service works BETTER than it did when it … Read more

XO, one of the walking dead in VoIP are making an effort to revive themselves by going after the small business market. Today they roll out a new range of hosted VoIP offerings for business called Flex. The challenge is AT&T and Verizon, both of whom can roll out the same offerings and already own … Read more

ZDNet’s Russell Shaw has broken down the recently disclosed Harris Interactive poll data on VoIP. Most VoIP marketers that I have spoken with agree with most of the results, as it’s obvious we remain in the early adopter phase. What is also important to note is that in many ways it validates both the Vonage … Read more

Former DialPad CEO, and pal, Craig Walker is helping the San Francisco homeless get back on their feet with his new venture backed Grand Central Communications company. Rather than just be another VoIP play, Walker and his team are starting out by providing free voice mail accounts to the San Francisco shelters’ homeless population so … Read more