In what is rapidly becoming a clear cut roll out of AT&T’s CallVantage’s strategy to insure that anyone who wants to have VoIP in their home, the telecom giant has announced a relationship with BestBuy, one of the nations largest big box retailers of home electronics and appliances that makes it easier for consumers to … Read more
Wanadoo, which has already rolled out it’s LiveBox in the UK is doing the same in France. The box combines a router, Wi-Fi and VoIP. As someone who has used the Zyxel WiFi phone successfully with some wireless access points, but not others, the enjoyment of no ATA needed to make calls is killer. On … Read more
It what has to be a “we need to write something about this situation” type of story, Forbes writes about VoIP. Obviously this was written before last week’s AT&T announcement about working with the cable companies, so that transgression is understood, but to lump Verizon in with AT&T and call their service fast growing compared … Read more
There is an old adage around the telephony world that no one gets fired for buying Cisco or IBM. So it’s no surprise that the two companies which have written the book on how to sell, um, strongarm may be a better term, in new products and services that effect telecommunications have seem to have … Read more
WorldWide Telco is boasting that it will offer new features, which it feels, and I tend to agree, will be the decision point for how companies and consumers decide on a VoIP provider. What makes WorldWide Telco unique as a carrier is they are using their own equipment end to end, something that is both … Read more
TechDirt always has interesting opinions. This time they share them about CallVantage.
Nancy Gohring at WiFi Net News has a nice post and links to a story that seems to be building in New York to use WiFi and VoIP together. The whole idea of WiFi phoning is something that I feel will be totally disruptive to the cellular industry, which is why T-Mobile is involved so … Read more
This afternoon I was in a Starbucks where the hotspot operator is T-Mobile. Offering full T-1’s I figured with bad cell reception in the coffee shop, that it would be a perfect time for me to use my Vonage softphone and the Clarysis handset. What a dissaster. Even with the excellent bandwidth at Starbucks that … Read more
I’m not sure I would call $2 billion chump change, but that’s what ZD seems to ask. But read what Dave Dorman is saying and then realize, that sometimes, underselling and overdelivering is the mark of a smart marketer. What’s better? Saying to your board that you missed your numbers, or you overshot your goal … Read more
What I love about GigaOm is his Om Malik’s insight about the numbers, the area which I will never profess to be as sharp with as I am with words. Today he highlights the current status of Cisco being number one in Enterprise VoIP. This is not really a surprise, but validates that the business … Read more
