Viper Networks has opened a combined show and telco location near John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. The location is strategic. Not only is it near a major air transit hub, it is also near many of the Southern California hardware manufacturers in the WiFi and Router space, plus Gateway/eMachines. Given the need for … Read more
Michael Desmond, a long time technology reporter and author spent over two hours with me by phone last month talking about VoIP. His story, in the September issue of PC World Magazine is now available for reading. Desmond did a very credible job in researching the story, and asked lots of very good questions, much … Read more
PC Magazine has a very exhaustive story on VoIP and compares AT&T’s CallVantage, VoicePulse and Vonage, giving the edge to VoicePulse. I’ve been trying out VoicePulse and am actually rather impressed with the service. First like Packet8 and now Skype, VoicePulse is using Level3’s network. That’s one of the reasons for their call quality which … Read more
MCI is making noise about their 911 service. I fully expect the rest of the next gen carriers to have something similar very quickly, and view this as a positioning or posturing announcement. It is August, and news is slow these days.
While VoIP is upsetting the telephone industry in the USA and elsewhere, in Latin America, the governments are doing all they can to stop it dead in its tracks, striving to keep the long time incumbents operating without being impacted. But, if there is a will, there is a way technology will win out. So … Read more
While Level3 makes news with new outlets and old, as they build out their wholesale VoIP business, long time communications giant Sprint has made moves along the same paths, winning new business where their VoIP network will be resold by USA Companies, a midwestern cable operator. As I wrote earlier in the week, reselling rather … Read more
Yesterday the Internet was abuzz with accounts of Vonage having an outage. Well VoIP is Internet based, and from time to time, servers and routers do go down. And they get fixed. Vonage spokeswoman, Brooke Schulz said, “Yesterday at 10.45 AM EDT Global Crossing, one of Vonage’s IP providers, experienced a data routing issue which … Read more
While I won’t make jokes like I could about VoiceGlo going to the dogs with their announcement today their strategy is starting to get clear surrounding the free on net calling service offering. While they don’t admit it, they want VoiceGlo’s GloPhone to be the next generation of online chat rooms and interactivity between members … Read more
CNN has a story on the Asian VoIP market. Asia has been the market companies in the application server and softswitch market have been targeting since the late 1990s. The carriers there know how it can only speed growth, the issue is does anyone in those countries want VoIP? Likely the younger generation. But how … Read more
A report from The Yankee Group paints a rose colored picture for cable companies selling VoIP. While I agree they will pick up lots of customers, especially in markets where their systems are contiguous like in the New York City market where Cablevision rules the roost, knocking off the companies like AT&T, Packet8 and Vonage … Read more
