VoIP-Forum pointed me to a viewpoint of Internet Telephony’s Publisher, Rich Tehrani on the subject of E911. To me the solution is too simple. Every police and fire department has a phone line in their dispatch room called “the non emergency number.” All you have to do with VoIP is program that number into speed … Read more

A New Mexico wide area hot spot will offer unlimited VoIP over WiFi. As Nancy Gohring writes cell phone carriers should start looking over their shoulders. While SBC has the right idea with Freedom Link access in every UPS/Mail Boxes Etc. location you can find for WiFi, what I don’t get is the ignorance of … Read more

Clearwire gets Intel to invest. Clearwire says they will add VoIP. Do the math. Just like Intel force fed the growth of WiFi with Centrino, next they will want to propel the growth of WiMax or WiMax like Clearwire technology to propel that. Why you ask? They want to be end to end. From your … Read more

Mobitus, the VoIP side of FatPort, one of Canada’s top WiFi operators, has added VoIP with login using the Zyxel Presitige handset according to WiFi Networking News earlier in the week. I’ve used the Zyxel and have not been blown away with the sound quality at all. I just received from Net2Phone their version and … Read more

Om Malik has a pretty good handle on Vonage as he’s talked with Jeff Citron and comes from the investment banking world, so when Om comes to a conclusion, I tend to look at it and then add on. In my mind Vonage is using the dot.com model of “get big fast.” They are doing … Read more

Internet Telephony Magazine gives high marks to AT&T and provides a very comprehensive summary about the company’s VoIP efforts beyond CallVantage. What I like about this article is that it brought together what AT&T is doing overall and paints an easy to grasp landscape of how AT&T as a company is moving in the VoIP … Read more

After raising more money recently, Vonage has announced they will hire 600 more people.

James Enck, who I consider one of the brighter analysts covering telecom from a stock brokerage perspective wrote a piece yesterday that has me blushing and reflecting on how my writing style developed. While I’ve heard the comments from most people who like to read Om and I, usually ranking us in their minds as … Read more

In reading through the comments on Mr. Blogs site it seems the problem may be more hardware than software related regarding the port 5060 issue in the UK though to being caused by BT. Jeff Pulver actually did a polll of sorts and is look to get to the bottom of it too. If the … Read more

I got quotted in a very interesting story on VoIP security.