Telecommunications Companies Become Fastest Growing Online Advertisers, Increasing Overall Share of Impressions by 6 Percentage Points Year-Over-Year, According to Nielsen//Netratings This clearly shows that the Telecoms think that the online crowd is where they can gain traction first before going to the mass market. Does that sound like Vonage’s strategy? Now look at AT&T CallVantage. … Read more

Packet8 VideoPhone Makes Television Debut on Sets of Popular Shows While they are spending money to a product placement agency, that builds awareness, the key question is how will anyone watching know that the service is Packet8?

I’m hearing some additional rumors about Level3. While I have no inside information, some people close to the company keep whispering that more layoffs are possibly planned and that the cuts will go into the ranks of some Vice Presidents. What is clear is that as a company Level3 has not met its expectations and … Read more

Actiontec’s Internet Phone Wizard connects a regular phone to Skype. This looks like a neat product, and I hope to see one soon.

SBC readies Net phone service | CNET News.com I blogged news of the SBC Delta Three deal a day before CNET figured it out. But I’ll give Ben some slack, he did get someone from SBC to say something on the record, and reveal where the SBC VoIP service is being tested. My spies tell … Read more

Light Reading – Networking the Telecom Industry has a report of Sonus landing a deal with Time Warner to supply key infrastructure, like the softswitch that will support the TW VoIP rollout. Clearly if true it signifies that TW wants to use their own network for VoIP management, and is not going to rely on a … Read more