Today two press releases crossed the wire about E911 of importance, one from Verizon and the other from AT&T. While each company is rolling out E911 that works just like PSTN 911, AT&T seems to have taken the better approach. They’ve been doing it quietly since April, while Verizon puts out their announcement saying it … Read more

News about the long awaited Keynote Systems VoIP study is out, and no surprise AT&T CallVantage won for best quality, while surprisingly Vonage won for most reliable carrier. Internet Telephony also has a viewpoint. No study is ever perfect, but this is what we in marketing like to call a “stake in the ground.” In … Read more

I sure hope this isn’t true or Comcast will end up in court.

Skype is trying the “sampling” route, which is a marketing tactic I tend to agree with. Mark Evans has the news. Om finds issues with Skype Out though. So do I.

Just after my post below, I came across this post from East Asian blogger/reporter and pal Jeremy Wagstaff about Skype In the Classroom. Now only if Apple had really kept going with their Apple In the Classroom program as great guns as they had in the early days. Then it would have been iChat instead … Read more

When I think about the cottage community of hardware, software and other related things popping up based on Skype, I think of the world around eBay which has sprung up and how large that has become. Skype is basically in the same mindset, and, when I read posts like this on SkypeJournal about items like … Read more

Fast Fingers Tom Keating beat me to the posting about Packet 8 outages and their notice to users that was received today. What surprises me is that their firmware updates seem to cause outages, yet in the year I’ve had my CallVantage and two years or more that I’ve had Vonage as well as all … Read more

A report out of Sydney has Vonage opening an operation down under. Hat tip to Russell Shaw.

Mr. Blog has some very valid points and we need to take heed. Between he and Jeff the future ideas are safe and secure.

It’s turning into a holy war as the loyalists square off with the not so ready to believe. Erik’s point about SIP is very well taken. Like him, I think standards based technology will win out. Skype, while an overnight success story only has to integrate SIP into itself and the telco world would change … Read more