According to Brooke Schulz, VP, Corporate Communications at Vonage here’s what happened today: “A facility went down that serviced a few areas: Boston, Milwaukee, Greensboro and Pittsburgh. I was told by our engineers it was affecting inbound calls to those areas only. Our website was failed over to another carrier as well. People were getting … Read more
CNET has followed up on my post a few weeks back about Port Blocking. My gut says port blocking is a bigger issue than people know, and many chalk it up to their own lack of tech knowledge. Last year Cox Communications blocked Port 25 to combat spam. It really didn’t work, as Cox servers … Read more
Modular By Design a web site that has been devoted to music downloads has moved into the VoIP space.
Business Week has a detailed story about Skype. Largely a rehash of what is already known and written about here and on GigaOm.
VoiceGlo is seeking to be the world’s largest PBX. Today they announced new features to GloPhone, the web based application that lets people make calls. While this is ultimately a stock play for the major investors, you have to give credit to the GloPhone folks for trying to get traction and build a major proof … Read more
A site called VoIPReview.org is seeking to gain traffic to drive customer towards VoIP adoption. Some of the good features it includes community tools where users of many VoIP services can interact with one another in the forums, and where they can critique the services. The most valuable feature is the comparative features section which … Read more
ZDNet/CNET have a very detailed view on Covad’s future, much of which is being pegged to their VoIP rollout tied to their GoBeam acquisition. The all stock deal that happened last spring provided Covad with a voice play to take to their business customers. So why is Speakeasy.net, one of Covad’s largest resellers pushing the … Read more
Yesterday Cox Communications announced the creation of an ad sales interconnect in San Diego with Time Warner Cable. What they didn’t announce is that Time Warner Cable late last week reportedly informed their San Diego cable ad sales staff that they were no longer needed and was shutting down the entire ad sales operation in … Read more
GiagOm Malik drew my attention to this AdWeek story about Vonage and their pursuit of new marketing services agencies. If I do the math right, given current numbers and if the proposed budget is correct, Vonage is expending $375 per customer in marketing expense before you add in the cost of the ATA and shipping, … Read more
James Enck in his excellent blog on the Euro Telco scene has reported on the rapid uptake of VoIP in Amsterdam. For the company that is getting a better than one in five conversion from PSTN to VoIP that is clearly the harbinger of things to come.
