UK ISP Freedom To Surf has released a VoIP service that works with Microsoft’s Windows Messenger (not not MSN Messenger). The version of Windows Messenger works either by making a system call on the SIP stack resident in the Windows XP OS or uses h.323, an older, yet still stable way to make VoIP calls. … Read more
Danny Klein, one of my favorite VoIP analysts with the Yankee Group, is quoted in a press release from his firm about the potential influx of VC funding into VoIP. With all this money out there, you would think that instead of another service provider coming on board, that someone would create some usefull services. … Read more
VoIP via your PocketPC isn’t ready for prime time, according to MercCenter’s Sam Diaz. I’m with Sam on this one, but not for all the same reasons. First, the cost of a PDA is equal or greater than for any cell phone. Second the audio quality on many Pocket PC’s is just brutal. It wasn’t … Read more
In the world of PR, positioning, is everything. Mindshare, as Bill Ryan, of Portola Strategies, likes to call it, is equally important. So once a topic, like VoIP get’s mindshare, because the story is appealing to reporters, you begin to see the affected, afflicted and disenfrnchised strike back. They strike back via a strategy called … Read more
UPDATED–I don’t know what it is with the folks at CNET, but it seems their thoroughness is somewhat lacking these days. The most recent CNET account about VoIP leaves lots of holes and really fails to tell the facts correctly. First, all PVRs are not Tivo’s and thus some, like Reply have broadband access to … Read more
I don’t mean to be nostalgic, and off topic today, but one of my favorite early morning television shows as a kid was “Thunderbirds.” Those puppets that had a show over in the UK that somehow found there way onto USA television in Phildelphia. Well after many years of someone wanting to do a movie, … Read more
An unconfirmed report, but one from a reliable source has informed Andy Abramson’s VoIPWatch that Adelphia Cable is blocking port 69 making VoIP service impossible to use. If the cable companies start this, they will walk smack dab into both legal and FCC actions.
I’ve been hearing rumblings of the Washington Post doing a comparative story on VoIP, taking into account the three major players that have emerged. Vonage, Packet8 and AT&T’s Call Vantage. In reading the story that ran today, I have to say it is one of the most fair and honest reviews on VoIP seen to … Read more
I need to beg your indulgence for it’s time to say thanks to my mentors in life. Without the five people who influenced me most along the way, and helped form the six cannons of dealing with the media that have been able to get me quoted again in the media (something that always happened … Read more
Washington Post Telecom reporter Christopher Stern has a very comprehensive story on VoIP adoption, zeroing in on the biggest factor that people are switching. Cost savings. If you see who’s quoted in the first line, you’ll understand why I’m so happy. (Registration required)
