Keating on New Softphone from Nero
Tom has an interesting post about Nero and their new softphone. I think there will be many softphone coming out in the next year, some open and many locked to carriers.
Cingular To Use WiFi To Extend Voice
In what is clearly a move to correct their error prone moves of the past with data and mobility, Cingular is about to roll out WiFi enabled switch over type of service for their cellular customer, marrying it up with their Freedom Link WiFi. If you look at the concept one has to wonder why … Read more
UK VoIP Player
I don’t know much more about this company than what their web site reveals but it seems the UK has a new VoIP player on the march, called PipeCall. On the surface they seem like a Vonage clone. Since Vonage is entering the UK market in the early winter, companies like this have the early … Read more
Will CallVantage Offer VoWiFi
A report out of India has Intoto claiming they are working with AT&T to offer a WiFi powered VoIP solution in early 2005.
CallVantage Goes Local
AT&T has a new local only plan for CallVantage. This makes VoIP even more of a competitive product with the Baby Bells in my opinion. AT&T Introduces New Residential VoIP Plan Feature-rich Unlimited Local Service for $19.99 per month FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2004 BEDMINSTER, N.J. – Providing customers a choice in voice over … Read more
Always Connected
Wirelessly yours from Paddington Station London Softphone. Headset. WiFi. Sitting at the train station. BT Openzone cost a whopping six pounds for the hour, or ten pounds for the day. Still if I had to be traveling having an always reachable, cheaper than mobile phone connection would work. I made calls back to the USA … Read more
Las Vegas ISP Gambles on Nuvio
We are seeing the era where ISPs become ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Providers) basically making any ISP a phone company as companies like Level3, Covad and Nuvio roll out private label phone product offerings in a pre-configured and bundled manner like this story reports on. Thus this means customer ownership and customer service become the … Read more
Level3 a Champion Provider
I think via some of the coverage here and on VoIPNuke by Keith, that this information about Level3 being the supplier to Champion, a MLM VoIP sales company. In the old days of MCI, resellers who were MLM’s literally built the business for the company via a plethora of independent, agents who were like Amway … Read more
Personal Skype Out
A San Jose company has developed and released a Personal Phone Gateway (PPG) and software that enables automatic routing of Skype to Skype calls to a designated PSTN number, serving as a call forwarding agent for the call recipient with a specified phone number. Geekzone posted it first. But there is more to this PPG … Read more
EuroTelcoBlog on Next Step for Popular Telephony’s Peerio
James Enck who watches everything telco in Europe from his perch at Daiwa Securities points out the ongoing success of Popular Telephony. James has pointed out how Popular Telephony has successfully signed another significant player in the VoIP building block world. His insight from London should be followed closely.