Bear Sterns, one of the more liberal investment banks took a contrarian like view on the Level3 Landing Comcast story that appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal. The WSJ reported today that Comcast is close to announcing a VoIP wholesale deal with Level 3 and Sprint to offer VoIP services in 2006. For Level 3, … Read more
Isn’t the world of VoIP just grand. Now not only does Jeff Pulver’s LibreTel let you establish a VoIP based presence in the UK with a London number, but now Vonage does too. Basically, for under $30 dollars a month you can recive all the calls you want from London, and have unlimited USA calling. … Read more
Ted Shelton is one of my favorite bloggers. He brings things to light that other miss like this post about Qualcomm. I live in the shadow of Qualcomm and have many friends who are employed there in the marketing and technology groups. All of that is fine, and while I recognize that they have some … Read more
James Enck has an unfair advantage, he’s in London, so news about Skype dropping their prices hits him first. That’s why he’s clearly worth reading. The question on my mind is not how low can prices go with telco. Everyone knows the PTT’s and RBOC’s have been milking the market for years. The real question … Read more
Score one for Jonathan Greene for finding out the news about who won the review for Vonage’s 50-75 million dollar ad account. My gut says Vonage will continue to heavily use the Internet to attract customers but also start to do some very targeted traditional media. A lot of new technology is out there to … Read more
Om Malik, has an interesting post about becoming your own phone company if you are a large corporation based upon a Baseline magazine account about Heinz, the ketchup people. This is exactly the space that companies coming onto the scene are playing, especially Cisco, which a few years ago announced integration alliance with the traditional … Read more
In what is clearly their Rising Sun strategy, James Enck tipped us all off to a deal with LiveDoor in Japan for Skype. On the heels of their Chinese announcement earlier, this clearly means that either Korea, Vietnam, Thailand or India are next.
I have been saying for over a year both on KenRadio.com and here that the telcos are the next television threat to cable, not satellite. Verizon TV is a huge threat, if the Telcos can pull off more than the pipe to the home, which in itself is no easy trick. Can you spell ISDN … Read more
Unwired VoIP is due in 2005 down in Australia. While some form of PSTN termination is needed, what everyone has to realize is that just like mobile to mobile minutes being free in all kinds of deals globally on the same carrier (though I used to get free T-Mobile to Cingular for a while) VoIP … Read more
In China VoIP is being looked at very favorably according to this China Post article. Will Skype and VoIP lead to a revolution in China? Well possibly a Telecom one, that’s for dog gone sure.
