Packet8 has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Pitney Bowes, the company known for selling postage stamp machines to 840,000 businesses in North America to sell in their Virtual Office business class broadband phone service as well as the Packet8 VideoPhone service to 840,000 PB Direct small business customers. The move comes as Vonage is … Read more

PC World has a very good recap on the state of E911 and the VoIP companies. It is concise, and sounds rather accurate from what I’ve been hearing.

Yesterday Microsoft began their assault on the telco world with their announcement about working with AT&T. As the day progressed more news seem to bubble to the surface about their VoIP and Telecom efforts here at SuperComm. Now when you look at their move with Sun things start to make sense even more. To enter … Read more

IP Pipeline Paul Kapustka is at SuperComm and heading out to the yard. But on his way he happened to find a few announcements of note. So while he’s heading over to the ballpark, I’ll be visiting the closest I can get to Willi’s Wine Bar in Chicago, Avec.

Even with the E-911 issues aside, Skype is not slowing down, as a handful of companies are planning on rolling out Skype enabled handsets later this year. While I don’t expect these phones to show up at T-Mobile or Cingular stores, I do expect the independent channel of online and store front retail in the … Read more

Acer’s new Pocket PC has the kind of horsepower under the hood to really give Skype the power it needs to work very well on a handheld. It also has the power to make the XTEN softphone client for PPC’s work well too I bet. That said, unless they put a good sound card and … Read more

James points to my observations about their brand messaging and positioning woes, then breaks a note about Skype in the corporate market. I’ve commented on that before, and Skype has told me they plan to be in the enterprise by the end of the year.

Later this year Covad and Eathlink will test market the concept of line powered VoIP. It makes me think that line powered VoIP could be exactly what United Online’s NetZero may offer their dial up customers. That’s a guess, but the concept seems to make sense, since line powered VoIP works over existing copper wire … Read more

When I first read that Microsoft was saying they want to offer combined service solutions I first thought they were sounding a lot like the IBM of old. Then I read their announcement with AT&T and I felt even more convinced when it comes to how the enterprise market deals with both companies. Microsoft is … Read more

The idea of the triple play isn’t new to many readers, but that will be one of the key themes this year at SuperComm in Chicago. More and more companies will be announcing new tools that speed the deployment or improve the quality and the ease of which it can be deployed. What is still … Read more