The International Herald Tribune has a story on a bunch of ways college students can reach out and touch someone (at low or no cost). It’s interesting that Sightspeed and Skype both are getting lumped into a story about Instant Messaging, which really goes to highlight, but not mention the idea of presence, IM and … Read more

In what should not be overlooked, SBC IP, the VoIP division of telecom giant SBC wants to sidestep state licenses and get numbers directly from the NANPA. There is more to this than just bypassing the regulators, as it means SBC wants to go head to head with AT&T and the other “national” players liek … Read more

Our folks in the UK are seeing rapid action from BT when it comes to VoIP. Their new 21st century network is geared all around IP but this report brings up a very valid point about IP addressing, or the looming shortage until IPv6 is fully rolled out. What the story misses is the key … Read more

VoiceGlo’s Glophone has some P2P competition with a new player in the game. Named BuzzFone, the company is offering a Skype like peer to peer service for free. Let’s see. Buzzfone, Skype, Peerio, VoIPster, all P2P. Add in Firefly, Glophone, SipPhone, FWD and who knows how many others and one has to wonder if anyone … Read more

Covad which likes to educate via the white paper route has made their views public on the subject of regulation of VoIP. What they are really doing though is called lead generation in marketing speak. Get people to download in exchange for a “consultation” on how VoIP can be better for the customer. The marketer … Read more

In a perfectly timed move executed in consort with their Olympics advertising campaign, AT&T has rolled out three simultaneous initiatives that will likely spur the uptake of CallVantage, their VoIP telephony service aimed at broadband customers. First they have expanded to another 21 markets, giving them what is likely the widest reach of any next … Read more

USA Today has a story on AT&T striking marketing agreements to foster faster adoptions of CallVantage with five of the most important cable companies in the USA. Only Cablevision, the metro New York conglomerate currently is sitting on the sidelines. The move by AT&T may be even more significant when one looks beyond the words, … Read more

First we’ve blogged reports about service outages @ Vonage. Now, Stuart Henshall picks on their customer service or lack of. My experience with Vonage has been hit or miss. For example in December I wrote up my experience of using Vonage as a travel accessory and sent it to them via their web site/newsletter. End … Read more

I have been saying for a while that MCI is a sleeping giant about to wake up one day and be a major player in the B2B and Consumer VoIP market. This move only foreshadows that end result.