AOL has been rather quiet lately about their VoIP offering so I was surprised to see this announcement that they are widening their package availability in Canada. This means that AOL is offering all of Canada that has broadband VoIP, putting them directly in competition with Vonage, which has made similar moves of late. While … Read more

While the value proposition of pay as you go VoIP from Zoom may have been around for some months I really think this is a good idea, especially for Nomadic types who need to make calls. Zoom has a package called Global Village that is pay as you go for VoIP. It eliminates the contract … Read more

Lingo ha anunciado libremente llamar a México. Aquí está el lanzamiento de las noticias. . The English version is here.

I thought with SBC based in Texas that this would have been a lay-up for the incumbents, but I guess the cable lobby did a better job. Basically this means for IPTV service to be delivered to a community, the Baby Bells will have to go through the franchise process, just like the cable companies … Read more

TelcoTrash has a report about VoIP regulation in Italy. What I think is interesting is that they have separated Skype (and I guess all P2P telephony) from PSTN replacement by VoIP.

With the holiday weekend upon me I missed this great post by Martin Geddes on Skype features he wants. I can’t think of more right now, but give Martin credit for thinking about this.

I don’t know how their can be a telco summit without Jeff Pulver there. I mean, for over ten years Jeff has been pushing the advancement of telecommunications not only in the USA, but around the globe. Like other things dropped in to the Canadian Post Office mail boxes, Jeff’s invite must have gotten lost.

Now this is a cool cell phone. No mention if it has WiFi. That means no VoIP without it.

Dialcom, a company with a cool view seems to be one of the cottage industry types I keep feeling will emerge as part of the Skype eco-system. Today I was pointed by an online friend to their site, where they offer a Video4Skype plug in. This is very, very important as Skype already has announced … Read more

Over the past few days there has been a lot of back and forth online about Telstra, the Australian phone giant regarding what their plans are for offering residential VoIP. Now it seem an official announcement has been made. What it sounds like is the quality wasn’t there and the company want’s to refine its … Read more