Andy Abramson Over the past week or so I’ve gotten the required E-911 warnings from many of the providers of VoIP that I have under roof. Packet8, Broadvoice, VoicePulse, Vonage and AT&T all have sent me the notices, and with Vonage and AT&T, since I pay for them, I have had no difficulty making sure that my … Read more
James, who is wandering London these days, revealed that Telnor will be pushing VoIP after seeing a 4 to 5 percent take rate (depending whose numbers are right.) I say that is the harbinger of things to come, not an bad dream. Most of the world’s telcos will want to roll out VoIP in a … Read more
The new cordless combo router, phonebase and VoIP box from Uniden and Packet8, which I hope to try soon, will be available in even more places. Already available online at Costco.com, Amazon.com and the Packet8.net web site, Uniden has been able to leverage their relationship with Frys and Officemax to broaden distribution. One retailer that’s … Read more
Vonage executives like to live in their own world. They only talk about what’s important to them. They don’t reply to questions that may not be advantageous for them to answer and they hold off commenting until people may forget they asked the question. This has become more apparent ever since the 911 fiasco is … Read more
Mark Evans tipped me off to this story in the National Post. It’s an important and significant story for if it pans out the move changes the way people would work, with RIM’s messaging management at the core as it works on more platforms the same way, unlike Microsoft (Outlook, Pocket Outlook, Entourage) yet, integrates … Read more
Vodafone is the largest wireless company in the world. Jeff Pulver has made them his focus of attention about their plan to block VoIP access. I wrote about this back on July 15th and am thrilled to see Jeff echo and amplify my concerns. When streaming media was growing, Microsoft used to be concerned about … Read more
Design Technica, one of the cooler, hipper gadget sites out there has a nice recap about my agency’s client, Voxilla, joining forces with NextAlarm for VoIP centric alarm monitoring.
Wondering what to get that special someone this year for back to school or the holidays? Well if you follow the views of one of CompUSA’s top merchandisers, it’s going to be VoIP. That’s got to be good news for the folks at AT&T, Vonage, Zoom and Packet8, all of whom have products in the … Read more
The Cloud, a WiFi aggregator in Europe and the UK has copied the Boingo deal with Skype. This could explain why Boingo was having a difficult time signing on new customers in the UK last week.
Seems the Australian market for VoIP is lagging. Does one spell that TELSTRA or just the fact that they don’t see the need there yet?
