Andy Abramson

Comcast Adopting AT&T For VoIP?

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In a story that makes total sense, TMC.net has a report that Comast would be well best aided by casting their VoIP fortunes to AT&T for the network and management, if you want to believe one of the Telecom industry’s brighter analysts from Probe Research, a company that has always had a great handle on … Read more

Nimcat and Peerio

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James Enck over at EuroTelcoBlog has an interesting report on Nimcat and explains the differences between them and Peerio from Popular Telephony.

IP Inferno On WiFi VoIP

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Ted Shelton has a cool post over on his hot blog IPInferno based initially on Skype and the Pocket PC announcement of last week, but really about the idea of VoWiFi and how it can be disruptive to cellular phones as an industry.

AT&T Home Wiring in PDF

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I have the PDF version of the AT&T Home Wiring guide that isn’t on the web site. It’s rather straightforward and easy to follow. If you’re a CallVantage customer I’m fairly certain you can find it on the web site once the update happens. I got my copy from one of their PR folks. I’m … Read more

Skype Adds First Outside Director

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Skype has added Cisco’s Mike Volpi to their board of directors. He is the first Outside Director to be named. The appointment is personal and does not reflect any involvement from Cisco according to a Skype spokesperson. VON founder and VoIP god Jeff Pulver has his own take on this as well.

Skype Outages?

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James Enck sent me an e-mail yesterday saying he had a problem with Skype. What he saw was a grey icon and none of his mates online. This morning I attempted to make a Skype Out call to a France phone number, and got the error message that said the Skype Proxy could not be … Read more

City Telecom Fights Back

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To prove that PCCW is wrong, Hong Kong telecom operator City Telecom is offering a free VoIP trial. One has to commend City for taking the high road. Rather than get into a war of words with PCCW, the upstart is saying let the service prove for itself how well it works.

1-800 Get VoIP

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This is very similar to what the cable industry did for cable tv wih commercials over broadcast TV from the same people who did that. Right now none of the cable carriers are signed up. The focus is to get the number out to the carriers and cable operators under a licencing arrangement. What the … Read more

AT&T Enhances CallVantage

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CallVantage, the service I use more than any other VoIP platform has made some changes that I like. The idea of being able to have nine numbers is very exciting, especially for people like me who have business and friends in many places that have not migrated over to unlimited long distance. At 4.95 per … Read more