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SpinVox is making noise about an IPO. It’s a ballsy move for a company that’s really just starting out, has less than a million dollars in annual revenue, but a very experienced management team.

I’m a very happy SureWest customer in my Sacramento second home. While my wife uses that as her primary residence during the week, and I end up there some weekends each month, we have both been overjoyed since switching from Comcast to SureWest to their all fiber network. We have 50 megs in both directions … Read more

In an attempt to provide a greater independent perspective within the IP industry pal Jon Arnold has launched a new company called IP Communications Insights along with Marc Robbins. I look forward to learning more about their new venture when I see him, and his junior analyst, his son Max, tonight at the pre-eCOMM dinner.

Back in February I mentioned in passing that Level 3 had more layoffs. Now it looks like the ship is springing some leaks if you picked up the latest edition of GigaOm yesterday. The entire leadership in their voice group is gone and what remains is a shell of itself. It started over a year … Read more

Some silly views are making their way around the ‘Net about the decline of the hotspot due to 3G. I don’t think so. Neither does the best expert on the subject, Glenn Fleishman whose WiFi Net News would be akin to being the VoIPWatch of WiFi in my view. For starters WiFi is much less … Read more

Imagine you’re a New York City High School age student and you were late for school yesterday. If you’re someone who didn’t get your cell phone automatically updated or your computer wasn’t on to switch to Daylight Savings Time and you relied on the clock on your cable box from Time Warner, you may have … Read more

A report based on a talk at Stanford University by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin makes me think that the communications czar is waking up to the antics of Comcast. In many ways Comcast is a company that moves forward at every turn, yet in others they step on their you know what as they walk … Read more

Both this week’s eComm and the upcoming VON Unconference are my kind of events. Free flowing dialogue. New ideas and some of the brightest minds in the business. Are you going? VONCAMP, led by Thomas Howe, Carl Ford and Jeff Pulver, just added a second day. That ought to tell you that the interest and … Read more

Jeff Pulver’s post reminded me that I need to make it easier to be found in this mad month of March. Next week is eComm. Be there or be behind the curve of what’s really emerging in voice, video and real time communications. There’s also the IDG Voice Summit on Tuesday which I hope to … Read more

Forbes somehow came up with a methodology to measure and rank airport WiFi. Unfortunately, my first hand experience in San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas and elsewhere, where the WiFi is free has demonstrated that Free is rarely as good as paid. I caught up with Boingo CEO David Hagan who had some pointed and very … Read more