Andy Abramson

The old adage, everything is for sale, you just have to offer the right price. If Skype went for $3 billion it would be a 150 times return on investment. Some VC’s would be very happy.

The recent FCC actions means CALEA will become a front and center issue for VoIP carriers.

Over the next few days I’ll be blogging less. My birthday weekend started last night and ends Tuesday morning. We went through 24 bottles of wine last night between 10 very close friends. It was a great start to a great weekend.

Jeff highlights our upcoming Blogger Panel in Boston this September. It is shaping up to be one really great panel.

The first USA cordless DECT phone will be in stores soon as a USA based distributor, BrightHand. The phone works with Skype and a PSTN line, but connects to the net via a PC’s USB port. Seems to me better ideas are out there that blend VoIP and PSTN.

Once again my choice in the San Diego house, AT&T’s CallVantage finished first in a test by a major consumer technology magazine, PC World as they named it the Best Buy. While I’ve had issues with Vonage in the Sacramento homestead with latency and call quality, I can’t say any of those issues have popped … Read more

Check out Erik’s discussion about SIP2P with Cullen Jennings, one of Cisco’s luminaries. Voxilla’s Carolyn Schuck has more today.

Funny, this morning I called Helene, my fiancee and the cell phone rang. My cell phone, which I have the Vonage line in the Sacramento house programed to ring in case of a service outage. Helene, who I reached on the cell phone figured the router had gotten dislodged by the cat or something last … Read more

Rich Tehrani shares his views on what the FCC may do today.

My birthday is next Monday (send VoIP products) but it looks like the presents are rolling in virtually. On Monday the Southwest story hit the jets, and now uber PR blogger Jeremy Pepper rolls out a profile and interview on me. Last week Janus started the ball rolling on the Skype blog so I figure … Read more