Andy Abramson

I was about to write almost the same type of commentary, but Mark beat me to the punch. While 8 x 8 is clearly trying, I don’t think they have come close to turning the corner. Their burn rate is increasing, and while subscribers are growing, one has to wonder about the costs that they … Read more

The FCC has released their regular stats on telephone penetration in the USA. They also issued a report on how much people are paying. So right now VoIP appears to be a “cheaper” way to go, but I don’t expect that to last. While I do forsee the day of $9.95 plans, I believe that … Read more

Being private has it’s advantage, one of which you can make statements like this without all the strings that limit public companies. But still, one has to wonder a lot. For example, how much in the way of stock are founders and employees getting and how does that impact the actual balance sheet. Also, with … Read more

So you get an affiliate deal with Skype and your friends and customer start yelling about bad connections on Skype Out and Skype In….who you gonna call? What one insider close to the P2P company told me was that Skype is having success selling numbers (largely for voicemail) but that many people try SkypeOut and … Read more

I love Skype, but from day one I have never said it’s a replacement for my phone. That said, I do consider CallVantage and Vonage phone line replacements, and thus they need to behave the same way as PSTN, not just deliver the best of PSTN and leave out the expensive parts. Seems OM and … Read more

Hop On has a neat sounding WiFi phone. I sure hope this phone is better than the ones to date. It sure reads like it is.

In what we in the PR biz call, spin control, Citron is out there spinning a tale and telling it over and over again. There is also some damage control in the wake of the E911 decision last week, as well as added speculation about how much Vonage is really worth these days. As much … Read more

It seems over the past week there has been a flurry of media heading to EuroVON. Their fine PR team has done a great job as press attendance is actually up 47% from the ’04 show (65 and counting up from 44). Jeff also reports on how far and wide the attendees are coming from. … Read more

With SK-Earthlink my bet to be the most disruptive wireless player in the USA, far surpassing what Virgin or ESPN are planning, and much more forward thinking than the proposed and top secret HispanicMobile effort that CaCingular are expected to roll out, I see devices like this one found by those guys at Gizmodo to … Read more