Business Week OnLine on Peerio

I’ve been around the PR game for over 30 years. I’m only 45 and still get goosebumps when a hit happens. The story in BusinessWeek Online is a plum in my mind for Popular Telephony as it moves the company along and up the media food chain and more into the traditional business press. We … Read more

Net2Phone Pushing WiFi Phone Service

Net2Phone has formally introduced their WiFi service. I’ve been evaluating this for a few months off and on and have to say it works and the quality is on par with other carriers who offer the same think like VoicePulse and Broadvoice. The issue remains the phone. I think the initial phone is really first generation. … Read more

BroadVoice Promoting

I drove up to my hotel here in San Jose and out in front of the hotel was Broadvoice with a van. I loved the red circle with a line through the center logo…It was the Bell. Basically Broadvoice is saying you don’t need a Bell System phone any more….nice ambush marketing….

DoOM and GloOM from OM get’s Countered

“Om, it’s not dot-VOIP yet“….so says Canadian Mark Evans in his blog today. Om thinks the dot.com/dot.bomb era is hitting VoIP, and while some startups may become casualties, there are also more established companies in the space from top to bottom who are shifting to VoIP for telephony and the related business. While there is … Read more

]Vonage and the Customer Experience

It’s great to see Ted Shelton back writing on IP Inferno: as he has today about Vonage and the Customer Experience. As a long time customer of Vonage, and CallVantage, and one who has many of the carriers in the house I know exactly what Ted is talking about. My customer experience is better than most with … Read more

Skype Journal Launches

Stuart of Unbound Spiral: has announced that Skype Journal has Launched. I wish him all the luck and success in the world. This is a perfect example of niche marketing. Find a community and aggregate content for them. Skype is a community with an audience that is very mixed. The early adopters will be all … Read more

How Serious Are The Problems?

In ninth grade World History, our teacher, Royal Black, yup, that was his name, no jive, was the first person I recall ever using the phrase “history always repeats,” so I’m not surprised at Om’s post today about the growing pains effecting VoIP. When I got into the dot.com world outages were nothing uncommon. Heck, … Read more

WiMaxWatch Launched

I think in a few years WiMax will be more in the news, which is why I’m launching WiMaxWatch now. To be ahead of the curve. While other sites are out there, I want to bring the same approach towards covering WiMax that I have done with VoIP.