As a frequent, almost every other week flier in and out of Sacramento International Airport I have been a regular user of the WiFi service that was run by Icoacorp and accessable via my Boingo Wireless account. As such, I was intrigued when I saw that the airport was dropping the paid model for a … Read more

If you look at the possibility of Level3 buying ICG it’s more about closing up the (local) loop and getting more local coverage to fill gaps in their transcontinental network in my opinion. A few months ago the Colorado carriers carrier picked up Progress Telecom. Obviously they are not done and this potential buy could … Read more

I just saw what looked like a national tv spot from AT&T about CallVantage on the local news in San Jose, CA. It was more lifestyle and avoided price and features.

Andrew Sviridenko, Chairman of Russia based Spirit DSP sent me some comments on the Sonorit/Camino purchase by eBay/Skype. He wrote: This is Skype / eBay move in the right direction to complete with Microsoft, Google, AOL and Yahoo, as Andy points out (added Google which is very strong technology company and top eBay competitor), Skype … Read more

The comment period for the Pulver-Evslin Disaster Communications petition to the FCC is about to close. It’s time to get your comments in. This is what the FCC should be supporting, not toying around with the Telco influenced Net Neutrality issues they seem to want to focus on.

For customers of Sprint and Nextel who have cable service with select cable operators they can now get VoIP. Now only if they would offer a fixed mobile convergence service that would enable the mobile call to be switched over to an IP end point on a SIP capable device or client it would be … Read more

Now users of GizmoProject can have inbound numbers in Spain, France and the U.K. The prices seem comparable to Skype and what’s more SipPhone has beaten Yahoo to the punch with offering numbers in Spain as Yahoo only offers in bound service in the USA, UK and France.

According to a report over at Information Week, there is lots of room for growth in the IM space in the USA. What was surprising was the small number attributed to Skype, at only 3 percent.

While we all know VoIP will erode the tradtional landline business, for some carriers there are still ways to keep the traffic on their legacy networks, especially for customers who don’t need the next generation capabilities of VoIP. In Australia, Phone giant Telstra is starting to make some moves against the VoIP operators by simply … Read more

While no one’s saying, it seems that the natives are getting restless at Vodafone and the rumors of their blocking VoIP on their mobile networks data side are swirling. And that means Skype is their first target, at least in Ben Charney’s view. This is a continuation of the mobile operators walled garden approach to … Read more