All the time I hear from companies about how much money will be saved using VoIP. But no one ever includes the cost of the T1 line or business grade DSL or Cable modem service. To SpeakEasy I say..”Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!” Start with transparent pricing. For a small business let everyone know … Read more
Techcrunch is reporting that GoogleVoice is rolling out out Local Number Portability. That means you can transfer your phone number to Google and they’ll be your carrier of record. The story also points out that the next generation of the software for mobile phones (currently Google Voice apps work on iPhones and Androids, and you … Read more
Longtime business DSL and VoIP operator Speakeasy, now owned by BestBuy, has identified what they call the Five Myths of VoIP that prevent business from making the switch to VoIP: 1. It’s not really going to save much money- saves up to 45% over traditional services in some cases, not to mention costs of switching … Read more
The more and more I look at Cablevision, the New York area cable company, the more I always sense that of all the major cable operators in the USA, they know their customers best. Their move with WiFi, a successful deployment of true, metro wide WiFi that covers most of their footprint, is working judging … Read more
Devicescape, best known for Easy WiFi, the app that makes connecting to multiple hotspot networks including Boingo, T-Mobile and if you can find one, even FON hotspots, has expanded into the connectivity to printers in a deal with Brother.
An interesting article out o Japan questions if FaceBook really even needs VoIP. My view is it does, but it’s really from the perspective of being a call trigger point, not a voice hosting platform. Services like Calliflower live well inside the Facebook world for group communications, but as far as building a calling service … Read more
The company behind PBXes, i-p-tel of Germany has developed and released a VoIP client for the Google Android, called SipDroid. It takes advantage of the WiFi stack and the recently made available API. I have not tested it yet.
