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

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

iBasis hopes to attract some interest on the strength of the Skype win last week. That’s good for them, but when they seek to twist the facts to benefit them, they are no better than a reporter or analyst leaving out the correct information so they don’t foul up the story or perspective they are … Read more

Internet Telephony’s VoIP Developer’s Conference begins tomorrow in San Jose at the Fairmount Hotel. While shows by Internet Telephony don’t carry the panache of Jeff Pulver and his VON events they do fill an important need for the growing VoIP industry, providing an additional event each year, backed up by the industry leading coverage that … Read more

Defcon, the annual convention of hackers, crackers and phreakers was last week in Las Vegas. That is likely the impetus behind this story in the New York Times today. While the story provides cause for alarm how many people have their phone lines tapped today? These same type of stories used to make the rounds … Read more