Why Pay More?

I recently was informed about GorillaMobile, a telco bypass (i.e. minute stealer in the telcos lexicon). While this is a good idea for those who make lots of international calls, it is only good if you don’t have what CallVantage has to offer. For international calls I regularly dial into Control by Phone, which is … Read more

Packet8 Tries To Avoid Being Licked

Packet8 has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Pitney Bowes, the company known for selling postage stamp machines to 840,000 businesses in North America to sell in their Virtual Office business class broadband phone service as well as the Packet8 VideoPhone service to 840,000 PB Direct small business customers. The move comes as Vonage is … Read more

PC World On E911

PC World has a very good recap on the state of E911 and the VoIP companies. It is concise, and sounds rather accurate from what I’ve been hearing.

Will Microsoft Play Nice With Others?

Yesterday Microsoft began their assault on the telco world with their announcement about working with AT&T. As the day progressed more news seem to bubble to the surface about their VoIP and Telecom efforts here at SuperComm. Now when you look at their move with Sun things start to make sense even more. To enter … Read more

More Skype Focused Phones Coming

Even with the E-911 issues aside, Skype is not slowing down, as a handful of companies are planning on rolling out Skype enabled handsets later this year. While I don’t expect these phones to show up at T-Mobile or Cingular stores, I do expect the independent channel of online and store front retail in the … Read more

Just Add Skype

Acer’s new Pocket PC has the kind of horsepower under the hood to really give Skype the power it needs to work very well on a handheld. It also has the power to make the XTEN softphone client for PPC’s work well too I bet. That said, unless they put a good sound card and … Read more

Skype Attacking Corporate Market

James points to my observations about their brand messaging and positioning woes, then breaks a note about Skype in the corporate market. I’ve commented on that before, and Skype has told me they plan to be in the enterprise by the end of the year.