RED HERRING | Wireless cat and mouse talks about Xcelis and their concept to outsmart the mobile operators. My guess is the way to stop this is to limit the number of mobile to mobile minutes to the same number to xx per day or per billing cycle, or just eliminate them. That would stop this … Read more
Dialpad Lowers Rates to over 380 destinations for 2005 which got me thinking. Are rates going to drop as services get added. Let’s face it, pricing for minutes is pretty much, at least domestically in the USA and Canada, a thing in the past with even the RBOCs having an all you can talk plan in … Read more
Welcome to VoIP Nuke.com! where Keith really sounds off on the big box retailers who I have already deemed clueless when it comes to knowing how to sell VoIP. It’s bad enough that you can’t surf the Internet at the computer section to see how the screen looks when you go to your favorite sites, but … Read more
Om Malik on Broadband: Net2Phone Goes Local and I suspect given where some of the recent money came from, that some of the cable companies are about to sign with them, but not necessarily in the USA.
Techdirt:Does A Mobile To VoIP Bridge Break Any Laws? Sometimes one needs to be older to remember things like calling cards and dial around numbers from MCI and Sprint. I don’t see any difference bridging to a VoIP line from a cell phone, to call international today, than it was to dial one of the … Read more
US Military in Iraq Gets Cybertel Communications’ CyberPhone; Cybertel Ships VoIP CyberPhones to Iraq with over 6,000 Hours CyberTel gears up with the US Troops. This is really nothing more than a play on the calling card/pre-paid idea. With handsets that connect to a PC via USB and SIP this is not that hard to … Read more
While I read this story in today’s New York Times, I keep seeing lots of opportunities down the road between Sprint and AT&T. With Sprint finally having make it work, don’t just be best at offering pipe dreams, and AT&T which knows how to develop, deploy and deliver in a way very similar to IBM … Read more
Om Malik on Broadband: Peerio’s Dmitry Trashes Skype, PBX Classic Om….on ever insightful Tom Keating, two of my favorite VoIP bloggers.
Globetechnology: Should your PC be your phone? The Toronto Globe and Mail reruns a comprehensive VoIP roundup story from Thomas Fitzgerald of the New York Times News Service. It’s one of the most complete summary of the major players.
Those of you with access to the Wall Street Journal will be interested in the paper’s Cranky Consumer who tested, or sought out to test, a range of VoIP services that are available in the Metro New York Area. I like the Cranky one because they reporter does a very good job of showcasing both … Read more
