Andy Abramson

What’s Next for ITXC and Evslin

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Newsday, the other morning paper in the New York metro area that matters, has a very detailed story and interview with Tom Evslin, the founder of ITXC and now chairman of Teleglobe.

I Got GigaOm’d In Good Way

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Om Malik, whom I respect as much as any journalist for his unbiased coverage of all things broadband has some nice things to say about my comments on Blogs and Media, as well as VoIP Watch. Thanks Om.

Will Telcos Carry Sports

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PaidContent.org has a story item about New York’s YES Network creating a broadband delivery model. I have for many years been saying that the telcos are the next cable tv network and if they want to deliver true content over DSL, that sports and movies will lead the way. Imagine VoIP and Sports, plus Sports … Read more

How Vonage Can Call FWD Numbers

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Jeff Pulver, who I have more respect for than anyone in the VoIP space around posted a note today about how Vonage subscribers can call users of Pulver’s Free World Dialup and vice versa. It got me thinking about the softphones I have. One for FWD, another for Vonage. While I have XTEN Pro I … Read more

VoIP and The Media

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A major market newspaper called me this week to talk about VoIP. I did the interview and now they want to send a photographer, so hopefully the story runs soon The questions centered largely around my customer experience with VoIP, many of which have been chronicled here and on the “World Technology Roundup” which I … Read more

Chambers Bullish on VoIP

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Cisco’s John Chambers is very positive about VoIP. Given the accumulation of companies and technology which Cisco has been amassing, is that a surprise? In many ways Cisco has all the potential in the world to be a phone company too. With their core router and switching technology, MPLS protocol and owning Linksys, they have … Read more

076 for VoIP in The Emerald Isle

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Irish regulators would like to create a special prefix for VoIP. Sounds like it may make some sense….especially since a VoIP number is portable, while a landline is not.

Michigan City Gets WiFi and VoIP Together

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MuniWireless, one of the best sites covering public deployments of WiFI has a story about a Michigan city deploying the first WiFi with VoIP network. This is the first of what the company, Ottawa Wireless plans to do in the state. I expect more of this to happen around the USA. The price of $20 … Read more

USA VoIP Legislation

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Lots of news and noise were created this week around the introduction of a bill designed to keep VoIP free of over regulation. Wired has a very good recap as does IT Vibe.

Insight Research Says….

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VoIP in the enterprise will grow at a 20 percent rate over the next five years, as TDM PBX systems decline at the same rate. While they likely did some surveys, as the business of selling VoIP systems becomes more mainstream expect the uptake to increase once the understanding of cost efficiencies increases and hardware … Read more