Two Million and Counting

Call this the reason Verizon has made New York City and the surrounding suburbs a key “must win” market for Fios and is starting to crank up the PR, Advertising and sales efforts. Cablevision is one of the largest cable operators in the country, but focuses only on the New York area, unlike the others … Read more

The Telco 2.0 Manifesto

One of the semi-annual conferences I love to attend is held twice a year in London and organized by my friends at the STL Group, where Martin Geddes is found hanging his hat and providing very keen insight. Today in their newsletter I spied a posting entitled the Telco 2.0 Manifesto, a take off of … Read more

Ribbit Sold!

The sale of Ribbit to British Telecom, which was delayed for sometime for reasons likely having to do with internal matters, has apparently closed. 105 million is a pretty price, and I expect to see some other companies grabbed in the next few months as M&A activity is heating up. In the case of Ribbit … Read more

Credit Due and Deserved

A lot of media coverage has fallen on Vonage’s complaints about Port Blocking by a couple of companies. The real credit goes to Paul Kapustka, who has been like a proverbial bloodhound on breaking and covering the story from its very start. Kapustka, editor of Advanced IP Pipeline for CMP. He’s been on the story … Read more

Scam Deliverd By Skype

EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it. One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system … Read more

How Serious Are The Problems?

In ninth grade World History, our teacher, Royal Black, yup, that was his name, no jive, was the first person I recall ever using the phrase “history always repeats,” so I’m not surprised at Om’s post today about the growing pains effecting VoIP. When I got into the dot.com world outages were nothing uncommon. Heck, … Read more