Andy Abramson

Law enforcement cronies to the North in Canada have concerns about VoIP. Seems like they are trying to get the government to better apply CALEA like regulation in the Great White North.

Skype is the current leader in North American Voice over IP Traffic according to Sandvine’s research. Skype is handling more than a third of all voice calls and almost half of the minutes talked according to the report.

While it has been on the CallVantage user’s web site page for sometime, AT&T has made public their CallVantage Assistant today. Since I’m on a Mac these days more than a PC, thanks to Om’s trickery, I can’t use it. I’ll just have to fire up one of the many PC’s and check it out. … Read more

Someone once said there were over 1100 VoIP companies operating in the USA. Well with the FCC ruling on Friday, watch the mergers and just plain elimination of some occur. While everyone thought E911 would be a challenge (expensive if nothing else), now the providers all need to be CALEA compliant. FCC Chairman Martin said … Read more

Today’s announcement by GIPS means that Nokia phones and others that run Symbian will be better equipped for VoIP.

MultiChannel News, which is the bible for the cable industry when it comes to news and insight has a very exhaustive and insightful story today on all the things happening in VoIP within the cable industry. What is obvious to me is there is a lot more that the MSO’s realize about what they need … Read more

The recent FCC decision that allows phone companies to not have to open their pipe to competition and all that goes with it may mean a better future for wireless in the USA. I agree with DG!

It’s called CommuniKate and has been around for 7 years.

In what will go down as another “Microsoft doesn’t play well with friends” their IPTV moves may be about to unravel. Mark Evans has a short post that seems to ratify some early comments I made to Microsoft when I took a briefing with them back in June. At that time the blame was being … Read more

The next wave of VoIP will be offerings that make things simple and rely on VoIP to be the medium. Clients like PhoneGnome, Peerio are in this space. Aswath speaks of another one, and in his mild manner, seems to point that there’s more. I tend to agree and have been on the “it’s the … Read more