Andy Abramson

It sure looks like China is doing all they can to slow down the deployment of VoIP until 2008. To put this in plain English, China wants a fee and the right “companies” or people need to be partnered up with….

The Edmondton Journal has a story today that moved over Canada.com that describes the packet shaping and QoS enhancements that one of the cable operators in Canada (Shaw) is employing both as a revenue generator and competitive threat defence. This is exactly why I feel many of the small operators will bite the dust over … Read more

Yahoo has advised that the previously discussed Yahoo Messenger with Voice will be finally available in the USA on Wednesday. Gosh, where I am it’s Wednesday almost, being in Philadelphia on a family matter. The service is much like Gizmo or Skype, featuring In/Out and buddy list integration, but it goes much further by blending … Read more

The telcos have to get into the business of TV because the cable guys are already showing that they can eat their lunch with telephony now that VoIP is part of the gameplan. For years the cable folks tried to sell circuit switched telephony over cable. It was nothing different, it cost about the same … Read more

Odeo.com offers a really cool way to get feedback from readers. Instead of typed comments people can now send a voice mail message to you. Let’s try this and see what happens.

The VON Blur seems to now carry over beyond the event. The amount of follow-up to meetings that it causes seems to make VON an almost fulltime gig for those of us in the industry. If you’re not sure what you missed, check out Bruce Stewart and what he found in one day of being … Read more

Jeff and Russell seem to be disagreeing on what VON isn’t, that being a show for consumer VoIP. I for one would love to see a real consumer oriented segement of VON, not part of CES where IP Telephony gets lost with all the big televisions and even bigger booths from the major players like … Read more

Give the folks at TMCNet some kudos for landing Covad as the lead sponsor of a new portal called VoIP for SMB.

This means more VoIP will be in more places and offered by more players.