Digium is company that may have made the biggest mistake they ever could have and clearly need some crisis management help. Their reputation is now at risk and at a time when belief in Asterisk at an all time high, and with all kinds of developers and VoIP suppliers proudly using Asterisk pulling this “protectionist” … Read more
I had a chance to see RingFree in action at MacWorld this week. The application is simple to use, easy to set up and it just works. Since I have a PhoneGnome in the house I can now expand what that lets me do, and get greater use out of PhoneGnome’s capability to make low … Read more
A researcher has found what appears to be a serious exploit in Skype. ComputerWorld has the details but given how fast Skype reacts to things like this, my guess is this will be cleared up quickly. Still the news is reminiscent of the kind of issues Internet Explorer ran into. ZDNet has more details and … Read more
For global companies needing a global hosted VoIP PBX solution Sipcat may provide the answer. Their new service provides access in over 20 countries and with pricing that is the range of as little as 4 cents per minute..
In what can be seen likely as way T-Mobile will play in the USA when they get their 3G up and running this year, over in the UK T-Mobile just added free hotspot access to their Web N’ Walk 3G service offering, and in essence, have created a WiFi/3G bundle. This is the first I’ve … Read more
Leading European hotspot operator the Cloud continues to grow. They just acquired a very large German Hot Spot operator with a strong portfolio of hotels.
Canadians looking to save money when making calls now don’t have to look far. Lypp has rolled out a service that keeps costs down, with the promise of more to come.
Ken Camp has authored a really good story about Fixed Mobile Convergence and Mobile VoIP in VON Magazine. Give it a read…it is well worth it.
Ike Elliott explains the ramifications of Google winning the 700 megahertz spectrum auction and prognosticates about Google being a different kind of mobile operator. This is where services and technology which Google has either acquired or built starts to make sense. Using an all IP based back end, Google takes IP to the edge and … Read more
Hat tip to Rich Tehrani for his eagle eye find of what I’m going to name “The Japanese Bundle.” By offering free minutes between mobile and VoIP called numbers to customers Softbank is hoping to take away market share from the likes of NTT. It may just work.
