Andy Abramson Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about the looming price war in the VoIP sector. I say we’re already there. The price war is between the next generation carriers, the RBOCs in the USA and the cable companies. All kinds of creative bundling deals are making the rounds. Hardware and service. Features. Tie ins. … Read more
Investors Business Daily, the second paper for financial news in the USA behind the Wall Street Journal has a long piece about Vonage and their recent $105 million dollar series D fund raising round. One inaccuracy is the pricing of some of the Vonage competitors. For example, CallVantage is $19.99 a month to start for … Read more
A story in today’s National Post, the USA Today of Canada, Paul Kedrosky of Financial Post questions the viability of Vonage long term. The key point he brings up is the sleeping giants. The RBOCs which have been either waiting or letting the VoIP world pass them by. He also draws a comparison to @HOME, … Read more
Om Malik found this one. Somehow I missed it. Packet 8 is starting to build momentum. Their service rides on Level 3 and from my trials so far, I’m happy with what the deliver. Andy
The Wall Street Journal has a page one story about the changing face of the telephone industry with some very insightful viewpoints from the two authors. The whole idea of VoIP disrupting the baby bells business by others such as the traditional long distance players (i.e. Sprint, MCI, AT&T), the Cable Companies (Time Warner, Cox, … Read more
VoIPDaily points to Voxilla ( a SIPURA reseller’s blog) and unmasked a secret about the new Linksys VoIP routers. Seems the technology came from SIPURA, not Cisco. Why am I not surprised. Sipura supplies the telephone adaptor to VoicePulse and the service with it has been superior to Vonage who supplied me a Cisco ATA-186. … Read more
Om Malik has revived his VoIPDaily, one of may favorite blogs on tech.
A Reuters report out of Amsterdam shows the adoption of broadband and cell phone is leading to the reduction of landlines. In the trendy Euro style of life, I see this as a telescope view of what will happen all over the world.
Probe Financial, an off shoot of one of the most respected telecommunications research and analyst groups, Probe Research, has issued a very positive statement about the cable companies joining up with AT&T to propel the adoption of VoIP. Probe has been on the mark before about AT&T as their groundbreaking report many years back authored … Read more
In what is clearly another step in a true channel marketing strategy, AT&T today announced their CallVantage service being available through online e-tail giant, Amazon.com. When you look at the series of announcements AT&T has made in the past two weeks that are all around access to CallVantage via sales and distribution, you can clearly … Read more
