Andy Abramson Om makes a stab in the dark about Vonage being bought by a company with a big IM base. While his logic is as always sound, I don’t think that either MSFT or YAHOO need to buy Vonage, but both always do work in that direction when it comes to buy or build.
Yesterday I saw that VoicePulse is adding a videophone to their line up. Today Vonage made a similar announcement, making the game more interesting, placing the upstart New Jersey company in direct competition now with the long standing IP videophone leader Packet 8, and to some degree going in a direction that is hardware based, … Read more
Between the closing lines Om’s post and Pulver’s prediction for 2005 the prospects for many of the upstart VoIP players is looking somewhat murky. I say that because the MSO’s, the RBOCs and the long running incumbents like AT&T, Sprint and MCI all have enourmous customer bases to convrt over to VoIP, while the newcomers … Read more
A report from Parks and Associates shows that only 2 percent of the public is using VoIP. That means there is alot of room for all of the carriers to grow in the residential market. Marketing will be key to spawning adoption. As broadband from cable companies and DSL/FTTP proliferates then the market will start … Read more
James Enck recaps why Martin Geddes is in the leage of Aswath when it comes to being so smart. Martin’s wit is uncanny. The fact that he survived living in Kansas working for Spint is a tribute to his resolve.
Jeff Pulver has posted his predictions for 2005. I love his line about marketing. My two companies do just that. Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing-direct, broadcast, sales promotions and events. His other predictions are a sober eye towards what may happen. Give them a read.
In a report out of Europe, the stats say that there are five million VoIP subscribers. I don’t think they are counting the Enterprise space. I also feel the numbers may be already dated.
VoiceGlo has gone the direct markting/infomercial route to build additional awareness about GloPhone. What I find interesting is they now call their service peer to peer.
We all know this, but the stats are rather encouraging for those in the Enterprise VoIP sales space.
Wall Street Journal Blogger Supremo Jeremy Wagstaff ponders the idea of VoIP, Presence and IM, giving Skype kudos. I see the day when our “aware” technology makes it easy to be found, and even easier to not be.
