Andy Abramson

End of the ATA

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Om has a post today about the end of the ATA. At our blogger panel I posed this questions, based on Aswath raising my consciousness by challenging the conventional think of the carriers.

EuroTelcoblog Breaks The Skype Out News

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EuroTelcoblog‘s James Enck, aka, das Enkstermeister, has broken the news (and possibly the embargo I was asked to keep by the High Priestess of Skype in the USA Kelly Larabee). SkypeOut now has a million paid users, getting a less than great experience with sound despite GIPS being in place. According to well placed Skype … Read more

Om Malik’s VoN Reflections

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Om Malik on Broadband writes about the Vonage IPO and other VoN 2005 Reflections in his post today. Actually there are a lot of me too products. What’s cool about VON though is the still community feeling that exists and the nice people who make up the industry one gets to know. I remain convinced that … Read more

Call Everywhere from Belkin

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I have to admit, at first I was skeptical about Belkin’s entry into the VoIP business, but after my meeting yesterday with their product manager I’m thinking they may have the right stuff to succeed with CallEverywhere. While they’re pushing both a wholesale and retail model, it’s their X-TEN adaptation of the softphone that was … Read more

Parasites @ VON and Other Shows

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I’ve held off on this post because I wanted a good night’s sleep to recharge and so I can think more clearly and away from the hoopla that made this year’s VON great. But to give you background everything I’m about to say comes from over 30 years of experience in marketing. All kinds of … Read more

Largest SIP Community Questioned By Tom

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Is TelTel the Largest SIP Community? That’s the question which is keeping Tom Keating awake at night. The rather unheard of company, with users in China made the same claim to me and explained how they did it during a meeting I had with them earlier last month. The key…viral marketing. The founders, who have some … Read more

Google Doing VoIP? Old News

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Once again the Google VoIP story is making the rounds. I’m not at all surprised, but I do question how a lunch turns into a business. It has been known by insiders that Google employees have been buying unlocked SIPURA boxes. It’s possible they were doing this to try out VoIP, explore Asterisk, or just … Read more

Is Vonage A Parasite, Whose Got XTEN Now

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Light Reading has one VoIP executive calling Vonage “parasitic.” In the same story they draw attention to XTEN possibly working with CallVantage…..hmmmm. Speaking of XTEN, their Eyebeam client was used to beam back an IETF two way telecom video chat with folks who were in Minneapolis for the IETF meetings while VON was going on. … Read more