Andy Abramson Robert Poe has a nice story about how the RBOC’s plan to roll out VoIP via Stealth means. I tend to like this approach simply because it is really the harbinger of things to come. The telcos know VoIP is their future. How they sell it and migrate are their challenges.
Months back I said here in the blog and in interviews with members of the media that the SBC name goes away and AT&T becomes the new name for many reasons, not the least is tradition and history. But the real reason is on a global basis AT&T carries a lot more clout and recognition … Read more
Pal Erik Lagerway has moved his blog to TMC and has views on SPIT. His new company, EyeBall Networks has a piece of software to help prevent it. I call it the VoIP flu shot. You may not ever get SPAT upon, but if you do, you’re protected.
Talk about a story that’s late. The Wall Street Journal has a story about Voice over IM clients, focusing on Yahoo and MSN, omitting Skype and AIM. The write pans Yahoo Messenger and seems to give the nod to MSN Messenger. It would have more interesting if he had reviewed Skype and GizmoProject.
Last summer, pal Bob Cox of The National Debate had a problem porting his number with Cablevision when he moved around the corner in New Rochelle New York. Now it seems a Time Warner Cable customer has a similar problem. It seems local number portability, which should be easier in the VoIP universe doesn’t apply … Read more
More and more each day Vonage starts to behave like the telco they claim they’re not. Now they even have hired lobbyists to keep the beltway boys (and girls) better informed.
Ted Shelton draws attention to something I’ve pointed out before. The spending to the point of excess that Vonage seems to be doing. The kind of numbers which Ted alludes to numbers that are out of the stratosphere and one would think that Vonage was Coca-Cola. First off Vonage only has a million lines. I … Read more
Oh, I’d say he’s a bit upset at the price. So too am I but I get free access in the press room.
Last week Level3 had an outage that was at the root level, disrupting all types of Internet traffic and putting some customers, like AOL, off the hook for 20 minutes or so. While their SLA’s require them to provide an answer, the real explanation has yet to surface beyond some comments about an edge router. … Read more
Jeff Pulver is really good at being a catalyst for change. He has largely been the torch bearer for VoIP, SIP and now to help make sense out of the FCC’s CALEA interpretation as to how it applies to VoIP.
