Andy Abramson Anyone worth their salt knows that connectivity at trade shows is horrible, especially with Wi-Fi. The story by a ZD reporter shows how easily anyone can trash progress. Considering how much good news came out of VON (see pulver.com) someone had to be a party pooper.
Primus has launched Lingo in the USA with a $19.99 service plan that includes calls to Canada and Western Europe. What about Mexico? One would think with the amount of families in the boarder states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) that there is a market. Don’t forget, they are huge calling card/prepaid users. In places … Read more
Level3 has become the underlying carrier and termination provider to 8×8’s Packet8 network. This marks the first of what I expect to be a series of wins for Level3 based on their current sales efforts.
Skype’s has finally officially announced the Skype Out service at VON Europe today, according to Light Reading. The more interesting reference is to Skype In, and the hurdles involved. Obviously, Skype is heading towards a full featured service.
In what may be a public first, Vonage demonstrated VoEV-DO with Verizon’s Broadband Access this morning. The point of the exercise was to prove that Vonage, and other VoIP services can work over mobile broadband networks. I’ll have to try it soon, as I have the both the Vonage softphone and Verizon’s EV-DO on the … Read more
Om Malik, on GigaOm today, highlights the return of wireless broadband (ie. LMDS/MMDS) and it’s blooming love affair with VoIP. I agree that the new carriers are smart in looking to be telco replacements. In addition to voice the demand will also be for entertainment. Over the weekend I purchased a new Gateway Windows Media … Read more
At the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference yesterday, Verizon announced their plans to enter the competitive VoIP market. Why not? In making the announcement the chairman said they have a national presence, why not sell it. As the first RBOC to roll out VoIP nationally, Verizon goes head to head with AT&T and Vonage. It … Read more
Comcast is testing a new combined cable modem and VoIP adapter in a few cities, according to Light Reading. I’m also hearing reports that D-Link will release a line of in home networking equipment at SuperComm in a few weeks that includes a wireless adapter that has built in VoIP.
As we said here weeks back, VoIP knows no boundaries, and the idea of a global telephony carrier brand selling termination and bypassing the PTT’s is just around the corner. Sure the idea and deployment by large companies has been done before, but never has it been put into the reach and made so easy. … Read more
In the film “Field of Dreams” Ray Kinsella hears the voice say “if you build it, they will come.” Well that philosophy pretty much is what is happening with Voice over WiFi. If the carriers build the infrastructure to enable mobile phones to work both over cellular networks and Wi-Fi networks, the customers will come. … Read more
