The Human Side Of Blogs

What I love about Blogs is both their news value and the human touch. Take New York’s Jonathan Greene. He gives great insight about digital stuff, but never fails to keep the human side in check, sharing with us his joys and downfalls. Today he let the world know how AT&T’s CallVantage saved him money. … Read more

Packet 8 Panned

Leonardo pans Packet8, and seems to say in one breathe how unhappy he is and then to the issue of the current state of VoIP and handoff to other carriers. It deals with Codecs and the concept of transcoding, the taking of one carriers voice packets and delivering them to the other end in the … Read more

WiFi Pundit Thinks VoIP over WiFi is Closer

I’ve been touting the potential of VoIP over WiFi for many moons as longtime readers of this blog will recall. Now it seems the future is getting cleared as Glenn Fleishman in his most excellent and must read blog on all things WiFi and Wireless has pointed out via a Wall Street Journal. What is … Read more

All Boarded Up

This is a bit off topic but I can see how a WiFi phone and this service could work in many scenarios. If retailers nearby Starbucks started to work with T-Mobile they could make all kinds of offers to the sippers who are surfing. If services that offered ordering by phone posted their offers this … Read more

Office Depot Gets The Vantage

Office Depot, a chain of retail office supply and home office electronics stores, has signed an agreement with AT&T’s CallVantage to sell the product in stores. I love Office Depot because their sales team on the floor are very smart, they have great attitudes and care that you are there. I’ve made them my office … Read more

Korea Getting VoIP

Four companies have been approved in South Korea to offer VoIP. Already blessed with some of the fastest broadband and wireless broadband in the world, and Hanaro, one of the more early deployers of SIP in Asia, look for rapid consumer and business uptake. What I find interesting in the story is that the regulators … Read more

Cablevision Growing VoIP

With Cablevision now boasting over 72,000 Internet phone users one has to ask if Vonage’s Jeff Citron is starting to worry. One has to figure that with the cable companies working with the likes of AT&T and Level3 for network and transport services, plus peering, that this is a significant shift in where telephony’s share … Read more

Linksys In VoIP

If it isn’t obvious by now, the line of Linksys VoIP products are popping up everywhere from three main carriers, AT&T’s CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing and Vonage. Here’s a list, supplied by Linksys, of which products are available out of the box for the carriers. Phone Adapter with 2 Phone Ports      PAP2      … Read more

Skype Goes Cordless

Skype and Siemens are using a USB adapter to connect Siemens wireless DECT phones to PC’s so users of them can make calls over Skype. Skype is clearly making money but not in traditional ways. Licensing is one of the routes they are going.