Andy Abramson

The State of Pennsylvania has given into the Verizon backed legislation about WiFi being deployed by governments. It basically says if a municipality wants to deploy a telecom venture that Verizon has to be involved. My guess is some city will challenge the law in court. Earlier in the week Verizon said they won’t stop … Read more

Longtime VoIP industry watchers will recall that the State of Minnesota was the first state in the union to seek to put a tax on Vonage for their VoIP service. Now the state utility regulators have announced they have backed off. While this cannot be viewed as the way all states will behave, certainly last … Read more

A report out of Asia shows that 20 percent of the companies surveyed are planning VoIP deployments while another 42 percent are planning to test. This is good news for the Cisco’s of the world as well as the application, switch and IP based carriers who have a global sales operation. Adoption and deployment of … Read more

VoiceGlo keeps publishing statistics about the number of users but I keep wondering if they are actually referring to downloads. For example, I once downloaded their software but never found anyone using it that I was communicating with online so I dumped it. On the other hand I use Skype all the time. The Skype … Read more

My guess is someone like James or Om can provide a better viewpoint on what this deal means to Nortel’s stock price, but clearly it shows that when it comes to VoIP switching Nortel is winning business from the big carriers. While Nortel has had their share of accounting and management related irregularities they still … Read more

Packet 8 has added VoIP Reseller Voxilla to their distribution team. Voxilla, which is a great web site for VoIP info. They sell other carriers as well and are seeking to become a one stop information and selling destination online. Check them out.

eWeek thinks that VoIP will be vulnerable to attack. Is this FUD or reality? The comments are akin to other types of “the sky is falling” noise that we tend to hear is coming all the time in the technology arena…..this is one of some concern as VoIP networks are certainly an inviting target. That … Read more

I know that a lot of business people use Skype to talk to colleagues and suppliers, especially on an international basis. The question that this story makes me think of is whether or not their is a business version of Skype coming.

I’m flattered to be writing for The Broadband Daily. Today my first article appeared and it’s about Jeff Pulver. Give it a read.