Fast Fiber to the Home is coming. One by one the announcements are coming out from SBC and Verizon and if you’re a cable company executive you had better start looking over your shoulders. While the cable companies have had a good laugh about the problems with DSL, if FTTH takes hold the whole world … Read more
Toshiba has announced a product line up to compete with Avayya and Cisco. I dont see the price points holding for long. There will be lots of competition in the VoIP space. Think where the router market has been driven down to. I also can’t see a price of $160 for a softphone. My guess … Read more
I’ve posted before on how the Internet knows no borders, and how VoIP will be the catalyst for branded, consumer telephony and data offerings that really propel cross border, read global, brand efforts for the telcos. James Enck in his Eurotelcoblog comments on what is about to happen in Europe. While right now this is … Read more
Depending how one interprets the statement in this story, 8×8 has somewhere between 17,000 and 25,000 or so users. Given how much money is behind them on the public market, and how long they have been at the VoIP game, Vonage has kicked their butt all over the place with an inferior grade of service. … Read more
I’m sitting inside a McDonalds on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris. They have free WiFi. In theory if i still had Skype or my Xten softphone clients installed I could make phone calls. The price. Free for thirty minutes. If you want more time, you just open another browser window. The three McSurfers are all … Read more
Mr. Blog who has a very interesting perspective on all things VoIP pans the panel at Web 2.0. Candidly no matter who or what the panel is about, they are hard to do when some of the panelists insist on sticking to the “approved corporate message points.” Where’s the hook like in Vaudville days?
Om has a post about VoIP in India.
In a battle that will have more falls and takedowns than “Rowdy” Roddy Piper vs. Hulk Hogan were ever seen in Wrestlemania, two of the more cunning serial entrapraneurs Michael Robertson and Jeffrey Citron, continue to throw more verbal barbs in each other’s direction than Howard Cosell and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Forget the fact … Read more
Roland has a post about how VoIP will be a feature, not a service…For a long time I’ve thought that companies like Cisco and Microsoft will be the phone company of the future, along with AOL, Yahoo and others. Now, I look at ventures like Popular Telephony, SKYPE and others and wonder if it is … Read more
