HTC, considered the best assemblers of tiny devices like the PDA phone that is marketed by many wireless carriers really wants to piss off their customers in the cell phone business–THE CARRIERS. They want to bundle in Skype with Microsoft Smartphones. I think Microsoft may be concerned too, but not that much. For Skype to … Read more
Packet8 gets to the heart of the matter this holiday season. Kids. And they’re making sure that the kids who find themselves inside Childrens Hospital in cities around the United States don’t miss the chance to virtually see Santa Claus thanks to their videophone service. My view though remains that if companies which are thinking … Read more
The IT Observer asks if Skype is the Google of VoIP. I say it’s the eBay of Voice with all that is springing up around Skype.
Could an alliance between AT&T and Intel be world changing? When you think about it, Intel has chips inside just about everything that is Technology. Sure they have competition from TI, Broadcom and Qualcomm to name a few in the telecom space, but while none of those companies have an alliance with a state of … Read more
I do. Chris Holland says everyone should have a SIP address over at the Broadband Daily.
Aswath continues to be the go to guy when you want analysis that takes where those of us dive below the surface and then takes the issue down to the ocean floor. Yesterday I was questioning the demand for videophone service that Vonage (and VoicePulse) have announced. Well Aswath really rips into what is being … Read more
Om makes a stab in the dark about Vonage being bought by a company with a big IM base. While his logic is as always sound, I don’t think that either MSFT or YAHOO need to buy Vonage, but both always do work in that direction when it comes to buy or build.
Yesterday I saw that VoicePulse is adding a videophone to their line up. Today Vonage made a similar announcement, making the game more interesting, placing the upstart New Jersey company in direct competition now with the long standing IP videophone leader Packet 8, and to some degree going in a direction that is hardware based, … Read more
Between the closing lines Om’s post and Pulver’s prediction for 2005 the prospects for many of the upstart VoIP players is looking somewhat murky. I say that because the MSO’s, the RBOCs and the long running incumbents like AT&T, Sprint and MCI all have enourmous customer bases to convrt over to VoIP, while the newcomers … Read more
A report from Parks and Associates shows that only 2 percent of the public is using VoIP. That means there is alot of room for all of the carriers to grow in the residential market. Marketing will be key to spawning adoption. As broadband from cable companies and DSL/FTTP proliferates then the market will start … Read more
