Andy Abramson VoIP and Broadband Report has this to say about Vonage and Primus: Retail VoIP services hit by influencers’ bad word-of-mouth Mass-market independent VoIP services such as Vonage and Primus’ Lingo offering have been effected by poor reviews from major web-based influencers. William van Hefner, a telecom writer who’s Discount Long Distance Digest is read by … Read more
AT&T CallVantage has added Adelphia to their growing list of cable companies that they can sign users up with Adelphia for broadband and get VoIP at the same time.
I’m a big believer that the mobile carriers are ideally positioned to become VoIP players of significance. They already have customers, billing platforms and put handheld devices in peoples hands. They have both direct and indirect sales agents, and roaming agreements that allow you to take your phone number with you. So, without any real … Read more
In a sector that has to be closely watched, the home video game market that is, a second significant player in the game has tipped their hand about their plan to go VoIP. Nintendo, which caters heavily to the youth target audience has signaled the industry that they will be adding VoIP via a headset … Read more
Keith Bare tipped me of to this story about AOL’s VoIP play which I somehow missed yesterday, but follows up on an earlier post. AOL is clearly able to make a strong run. When you think about it, not only can they offer a typical VoIP like experience, but the ability to integrate with Instant … Read more
Jeff Pulver is so right when he talks about Level3 being an Enzyme that will bind together VoIP in his blog today. I just finsihed an interview with The Boulder Daily Camera’s Matthew Branaugh (I used to live in Boulder back in 1988) about the rise of VoIP in the USA. In my interview I … Read more
Covad is using Cisco. The big benefit is that Cisco offers very rapid replacement, usually within 24 hours when their systems go down. The second big advantage for using Cisco is the ability to have a standard managed network across all of the Covad facilities and to find Cisco qualified engineers. When you look at … Read more
Sonus, which has been in the past suspected of playing the hype game to manipulate the stock market price seems to have cleaned up their past and is now poised to become a real player once again. No one can fault their technology, and given the state of both Lucent and Nortel having had a … Read more
Reports out of the UK are that the Skype Beta for Mac is now out.
Gartner Group, one of the larger research groups in the IT and Telcom space says that despite all the hurdles VoIP shall be adopted by telco users saying 90% of all new corporate telephone systems will be IP-enabled. The hurdles which range from security to corporate in-fighting, will be overcome is the feeling of Gartner … Read more
