Andy Abramson

Seems everytime I look up someone else is bashing Skype and the risks associated with it. That’s one reason why I write so little about it. Old news in my book.

Vonage continues to spend like drunken sailors on liberty after months out on the water. As they spend millions, their cost of customer acquisition increases. I used to think the cost including bounties, rebates to retailers, MAP funds, slotting allowances and just about all the other laid in costs were in the range of 600-700 … Read more

Good news for Level3 in their own back yard. I hear Comcast is also gearing up for a big push in the Bay Area and elsewhere. They are banking on the Level3 infrastructure as the catalyst.

The low price point IP-PBX market for SOHO and SMB is really heating up. Today D-Link joined the fray. I’m wondering if the Vonage effort in this market, working via VARs has taken off yet or if it has stalled while Vonage plots their exit route?

Without mentioning the Relevance Engine or iotum, the Financial Times has pretty much laid out a case for my client’s new technology. Alec Saunders, co-founder of iotum comments as well.

Tom has an awesome write up on Linksys’ new office VoIP play that reads a lot like what Vonage is seeking to do. Gee, I wonder whose hardware Vonage will be using.

I heard through the grapevine that the Cisco Call Manager folks were not too thrilled when Linksys moved in this direction. Talk about gutting the low end of the SMB market and the SOHO space, Linksys, likely via their Sipura acquisition, has really made a move into SMB/SOHO VoIP.

Google’s executive chef posts on the googler blog what his colleagues are chowing down on. I wonder how hard he has to search for organic tomatoes, eggs and interesting food stuffs.

This is a must read. Not only do I agree with Vint Cerf, I also feel that this is one of the most clearly written letters on a position that impacts us all. Network Newtrality, aka anti-portblocking, anti-packet filtering, or the elimination of service providers to doctor how your Internet connection behaves when you run … Read more

In what could easily be a pot calling the kettle black situation a provider of 911 services apparently had an outage in the Louisville area according to TechDirt. This meant no one. Not cellular users, PSTN users or VoIP users could reach the proper authorities, proving that it’s more than VoIP operators have a vested … Read more