Andy Abramson Defcon, the annual convention of hackers, crackers and phreakers was last week in Las Vegas. That is likely the impetus behind this story in the New York Times today. While the story provides cause for alarm how many people have their phone lines tapped today? These same type of stories used to make the rounds … Read more
Ottawa Wireless, the company in Michigan which is making whole towns wireless using a combination of 802.11b and an 802.11a backhaul service plans to launch a VoIP service later this year. Now you ask, who needs this kind of service when a cell phone already exists. Well that’s right, but this is cheaper for staters. … Read more
Planet Zivva, an Atlanta based company has developed a Calling Party Pays (CPP) program with a twist. Basically they will assign you a number in a foriegn country, you then map it to a number in the USA, where it rings. For what is as little as $29.99 (or free in the UK during the … Read more
One of the things I believe is that wireless (i.e. mobile phone) carriers will be your next all encompassing telco. In the UK, as James Enck points out in his EuroTelcoBlog, Carphone Warehouse is doing just that. When you look at the USA’s wireless companies they have all they need to be just that, when … Read more
Reports out of Taiwan are that HTC, the folks who made T-Mobile’s XDA in the USA, have phone coming that is built on the Pocket PC platform. It will will have Windows Mobile Second Edition, 64 megs of Program Memory, 64 Megs of Storage memory, on board WiFi and Bluetooth, GPRS network access, plus the … Read more
BT is cutting prices on Broadband Telephony. In an email today, noted Eurotelcoblog author James Enck said: BT Group has, in our opinion, the most forward-looking management team and strategy in the sector, probably globally, but the problem the company faces is that visibility is very, very poor – both in terms of the competitive … Read more
MCI, which in the last century became the first major player in alternative long distance carrier is signaling the market that they are about to be a major player in VoIP, either as a wholesale carrier or a business and consumer service. Their announcement today about raising their SLA guarantee has to be interpreted that … Read more
Ecuity, a Washington state based company is rolling out a virtual PBX service based on the Intel backed venture, TelSym. This market sector is heating up very quickly. Already active or announced in the space is Packet8, Covad’s GoBeam and Voice Glo, with more sure to follow. But the Ecuity offering, when live, proposes to … Read more
Malta, one of the jewels of the Med, and a tax haven for some, is pondering how to legislate VoIP. As you can see, more countries around the world are looking how to keep control via the PTT’s or through licensed/tarrif based carriers. In my opinion those countries that over regulate will fall prey to … Read more
A report on IT Web, about the best South African tech web site has a very concise view of what will soon happen in Africa. For years many African countries have been behind in allowing the advances of the Internet to be considered legal. As the article points out, a grey market has evolved. Given … Read more
