VoIP is continuing to ramp here in the USA, but also expected to grow around the world as more and more access providers get into the game, and as both bundling and unbundling options appear on the scene. All this leads to the need for real standards to be maintained and followed, QoS and SLA’s … Read more

Microsoft is clearly not asleep at the switch and in this well written and in depth article Olga Kharif of Business Week has clearly defined the landscape and who the Redmond based giant is going after. Skype/eBay and Google Microsoft plans to integrate three main features into their overall suite of user capabilities: In Windows … Read more

Long time pal Shel Israel has co-authored with Robert Scobble a kick**** book about blogging. Shel is an awesome story teller and gifted blogger. He also provides some exceptional coverage of the best conferences via his Conferenza reports. A reformed PR guy and all around nice guy, if you’re in the Toronto area, you should … Read more

Reports are that the cut downs are happening at both Level3 and AT&T/SBC. More folks get the news next week my sources tell me….That means for startups there are going to be some very talented people who are better off not being in the corporate world and can bring value to an early stage company.

I received an email notice from Packet 8 about their new features. They are the kind of features that are very logical in a VoIP phone plan and mirror the best of what AT&T CallVantage, Vonage, and Broadvoice, to name a few offer. VOICEMAIL TO EMAIL NOTIFICATION FOLLOW ME, FIND ME SIMULTANEOUS RINGING ON MULTIPLE … Read more

Skibare, one of the Hat Trick Club’s founding members sent along an interesting factoid to me this morning. It seems that Time Warner Cable is really getting hot with VoIP.  What is also obvious is that the bundle offer seems to be taken by almost 90 percent of the new subscribers based on the additions. … Read more

A Fenway Park Green Monster member reports that Verizon is about to begin a push for VoiceWing. This screwball pitcher tells me that Delta Three is about to be sent to the showers and BroadSoft is coming in as the possible fireman to begin throwing strikes. A New York Rangers Penalty Box reader reports that … Read more

If Apple was really on the ball, they would have VoIP and WiFi built into the phone.

Last month I was queried twice by consultants at Bain and Company who were working on an analysis of the E911 market. I suggested they speak to some service providers, but they were insistant that I was a better source of information on what the market promise is for E911. While they didn’t disclose the … Read more

Jon Arnold snapped a bunch of photos with his Nokia N90. he caught be at work in a comfortable spot at the IT Expo last week.