As a recovering sports junkie and sports marketing executive in my former life, one of the most exciting months of the year was always March. Not only was it make or break time in the NHL and NBA, but for many a real cage fan, the NCAA March Madness college hoops tournaments were the thing … Read more
Dean Bubley’s post on 3G and WiFi got me thinking about lock in deals that the mobile operators and even many of the VoIP providers stick many of us with. Buy your phone from AT&T or T-Mobile and your locked in to them, and that phone. Same with Verizon and Sprint. Just try changing your … Read more
Beer drinkers know the song that starts out 99 bottles of beer and as each verse goes by, the number drops. Well that’s about how I feel about the new pricing models from the USA based mobile operators on what’s going to happen. Om points out that the new pricing favors the heavy user more … Read more
Stacey Higginbotham, one of the newer bright lights at GigaOm has a short piece about the possible death watch about UMA. For me, UMA, FMC (fixed mobile convergence) and VCC (virtual call continuity) are all about proving what people want: 1. One number 2. Two services that appear as the same-mobile phone, WiFi phone 3. … Read more
I love Best Of and Top lists. They take the work out of stumbling through so many different applications that others wiser than I have gone through. Today I spied this VoIP News Top Five Skype Add Ins list. In many cases, it mirrors some of the comments I’ve read or heard from pals Jim … Read more
A really comprehensive list of what has been tabbed the Top 50 Open Source VoIP applications has been assembled and posted. In reading through the list I’m amazed at the familiarity I have with many of the applications, including many of which some of my agency’s clients have worked with, or in the case of … Read more
Sorry, I know I’m on a forced vacation but I can’t resist. Verizon Wireless pressing the button on unlimited (well lets all read the fine print) calling is a sign that mobile is racing to the bottom just like land line voice and VoIP have already basically done. It also means they are anticipating all … Read more
I’m taking a long needed and well timed vacation this week. I’ll be back to blogging over the weekend. P.S. I may post as time permits….as I am doing…
I got to see the CounterPath (i.e. BridgePort Networks) Fixed Mobile solution in action. It worked. Calls went seamlessly between desktop computers, mobile phones, with a one number solution, installed at the carriers network operation center. Unlike prior demos when BridgePort Networks was an agency client pre-acquisition, this was a real live deployment that is … Read more
Sitting in the Nokia Press Conference here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, I ran into ex Skype Developer program lead, Lenn Pryor who moved over to Nokia’s new OVI group. Lenn’s group is part of the transformation becoming product and service reality that has been happening within Nokia for the past … Read more
