The Von View

I could spend all day at VoN and get nothing done while at the same time get so much accomplished. It’s the kind of show where one meeting leads into another, some unexpected and others necessary. I spent the morning with Wall Street Journal Asia Contributing Editor Jeremy Wagstaff walking the floor of VoN. A … Read more

Pulver Communicator Unleashed

The folks at Pulver.com have released the public version of the Pulver Communicator. Based on my trials of the beta this is a rather useful and easy to use product. The blending of Free World Dial Up with Instant Messaging across platforms is very valuable.

RIM goes VoIP

Jonathan found a red hot item that is really blue, but called black. It seems RIM is adding VoIP their next generation of Blackberry PDAs…..YES !

Why AT&T Needs A SoftPhone

I can’t say it enough. CallVantage has the best service, but their lack of a softphone is a setback in many ways. Now that more of the WiFi networks are looking at VoIP, the softphone on a laptop is the way to go. Today Boingo and Vonage did the mating dance. Since I predict Boingo … Read more

Pulver Hits a Home Run

VON is hot. Red Hot. Hats off to Jeff Pulver and his team for putting together a jam packed five days of VoIP. There is possibly more than one person can absorb. The panels are excellent, the show floor well laid out, and all the right companies are there. VON is back to where Jeff … Read more

VoiceWing Not Flying

How clueless are the folks at Verizon’s VoiceWing…? First their PR person calls me to set up a briefing and leaves a phone number. Guess what? No voice mail. So I went by the VON booth tonight and neither of the two VoIP people were around, and neither was the PR person. If they’re trying … Read more

Keating on GNUP

Tom Keating of Internet Telephony blogs the Popular Telephony GNUP announcement, as he waits for the release of the software.

Enck on Nimcat and Popular Telephony

Eurotelcoblog James Enck of Daiwa Securities in London makes some interesting observations today about Popular Telephony and Nimcat. Given how close he is to the P2P space his opinion counts alot especially as he’s a sell side analyst and neither of the companies are publicly traded.

Who’s Best?

Yankee Group has released a study on which carriers are doing the best. I find it not a surprise that AT&T and Level 3 came out on top.

Hong Kong VoIP Wars Continue

As we originally reported back in September, the battle between City Telecom and PCCW continues to heat up. PCCW is trying to be the tyrant here and it looks like the regulators are giving City some room right now.