Andy Abramson If this posting in DSLReports User’s Forum is accurate, then this is what has to be one of the most short sighted and potentially embarassing moves I’ve seen in the short history of Vonage, and one that takes the cake of how not to do a marketing effort unless alienation of your most loyal and … Read more
In a move clearly designed to make VoIP more available in the UK, Ofcom, the regulators of telecom in Britain announced efforts to further unbundle the local look. This is a major step for the marketplace and will only futher propel adoption of VoIP by helping to keep the costs down. Expect some of the … Read more
A story out of Malaysia encourages hotel operators to offer broadband, and refers to Internet Telephony, aka VoIP. As someone who travels, broadband is a requirement and I prefer a wired room so I can bring along a telephone adapter from one of the companies offering me VoIP. which means I need a router too. … Read more
Jeff Pulver, VoIP God number one, will serve as the Keynote of ISPCON in November. I can’t think of anyone better to educate the ISP’s about VoIP at a time when they all can become part of the equation. The market is at a point where reselling, creating and allowing advanced services and generating accurate … Read more
Taking a page out of the Chinese playbook on how to be a monopoly based economy, India’s telecom regulators have cracked down on VoIP being used in the country illegally actually going as far as arresting some of the operators. One of the companies is Primus Telecommunications India, which may be a sister company of … Read more
From North of the Border (in Canada) blogger Mark Evans calls Vonage on the carpet and carves up their value in light of their recent Series D investment round of $105 million. While everyone is looking at the spend rate of Vonage, Evans does a peer group comparison versus Packet 8’s parent company 8 x … Read more
I should have blogged this a few days ago but somehow I forgot to. Tech Central Station has a great post on why VoIP is clearly different from traditional telephony that goes to support the “hands off” approach of Michael Powell when it comes to the regulation of VoIP. While Tech Central Station is more … Read more
Internet Telephony’s Tom Keating, in his blog, draws attention to a Heartland Institute post about AT&T’s dual strategy of leaving one market and building another. While the Heartland Institute does a decent job at explaining the situation, like most theoretical viewpoints, it lacks an understanding as to why AT&T has to take the dual path … Read more
On Tuesday Vonage made noise about their relationships with Staples and Linksys. In their press release about the Linksys relationship they said: The Linksys Phone Adapter with 2 Phone Ports (PAP2) and the Linksys Broadband Router with 2-Phone Ports (RT31P2) bundled with Vonage phone service offerings are immediately available at select retailers throughout the United … Read more
An Australian company, Multimedia, plans to offer VoIP integrated into their satellite delivered IP network to customers in the Middle East and South Pacific. Can you spell latency? One of the biggest issues with satellite delivered Internet access to date has been latency. If they can solve that problem this could be the start of … Read more
