In a broad sweeping announcement AT&T has raised the bar in the telephony vertical by indicating that they are working with everyone from application developers, equipment and device manufacturers, and silicon manufacturers under comprehensive initiative. “Our vision is to stimulate the development of a broad spectrum of VoIP-enabled devices from chipsets, software and Telephone Adapters … Read more

After pausing in the wake of the Hurricanes in Florida that devestated many locales, AT&T proceeded last night with the upgrade of their CallVantage service. While many of the upgrades are transparent to the user the most obvious new addition is the ability to add up to nine easy to reach numbers from different area … Read more

Spirent Communications in an attempt to draw attention to their brand is conducting a poll about VoIP. This falls into the category of a publicity stunt to bring people to the booth they have at a trade show in Italy, which is fine. I like a good PR play and this will yield some valuable … Read more

Kinetic, a research company, says cable VoIP will grow to 600,000 users by year end, according to an account in LightReading. What’s interesting is they also report that the home grown VoIP from Charter and Comcast is over a year away. Seems amongst the giants that only Cablevision saw the future of VoIP and moved … Read more

Business Week Online has a VoIP primer out. Not much that is revealing other than Apple users sometimes having problems with VoIP.

We talked about this here a few months back that Speakeasy would rollout their own VoIP service. Well it has been branded Speakeasy Voice. While Speakeasy works heavily with COVAD for DSL, for this play they are working primarily with Level3, but likely will need to work with some other VoIP carriers to reach the … Read more

Packet8 is getting into the game of wholesale sales of their technology for both voice and video IP telephony. This means that service providers, ISPs and resellers can now be putting their name around the service. Since Level3 is the carriers carrier behind Packet8, this means more business in their direction if Packet8 can gain … Read more

In a press release SIPURA announced their widely rumoured relationship with Linksys. Guess what’s inside the new Vonage ATA…..that you can get from Linksys. I tried one last night, set up was easy as cake. It’s tiny, has international power capability (why didn’t they include foriegn plugs) and set up took all of a few … Read more

A story out of New Zealand has lots of why the telcos should be scared. As I read this type of stuff about Skype and other P2P technologies, I can’t help but think of the early days of ICQ….and that Skype is to Voice what ICQ was to one on one and group chat.

It seems the USA’s neighbor to the north is looking to sort out VoIP regulation as part of a three day conference. Good luck !