Packet 8 has rolled out a new service call MobileTalk. While I’ve yet to try it out, it sort of looks like a cross between TalkPlus and Jajah and is designed to move more traffic over the Packet8 network by routing the call to them. Think of the calling card model made easy. This is … Read more
When I wrote my post on Saturday about Muni WiFi I had no idea that Earthlink was going public with their lack of desire to stay in the MuniWireless business. It was a gut level hunch that I first shared a few weeks back at the MuniWireless conference with others I consider insiders. The writing … Read more
There are two schools of thought one can have about Skype right now. 1) They will hire a new leader. 2) They will sell the company. This rumor about Google, which was once thought to be a suitor before eBay purchased them may now be interested in buying them again. My guess…eBay is exploring options … Read more
Minute stealing moves the sale of telephone calls from the retail side of one phone company to the wholesale side of either the same telco or another. Om’s report today on Jajh, Mig33 and others shows that the upstarts like Migg33, Jajah and a few others are into propelling what I’m labeling the MS Shift. … Read more
A few months ago I reported that San Diego Airport made their WiFi free after not continuing with a pay for play supplier who at least delivered 300k to each user. The supplier is also the same who supplies the WiFi management at Panera Bakery, a national chain which uses WiFi as an amenity to … Read more
I meant to blog this great news about Lypp on Friday and the day was so full of calls and travel that it dropped through the cracks. Lypp is not just lip service. They are onto something of value to the business user who wants to pay for things. I regularly deprecate the “free its … Read more
For the next few weekends I’ll be at my wife’s Sacramento home so when I read that her broadband provider SureWest offers 50 meg symmetrical broadband service I offered to pay the difference from what we already had. I mean, I can’t not be one of the first bloggers to experience what all that speed … Read more
Rich Tehrani’s post about Vonage’s recent court defeat against Verizon and other telcos made me think back to my very first day of class at Temple University. It was Econ 1 with the late Professor McKenna. He explained in his very first lecture to us what the bases of economics were in two phrases. “Short … Read more
Pal PhoneBoy alerted me to yet another big telco squeeze play that’s affecting new ideas to save consumers money. This time Yak4Ever is the target. OUCH!!!
Yesterday i wrote about the ridiculous approach companies like Earthlink took to bring WiFi to the communities that already have plenty of broadband. Here’s an example of what I consider the right approach. Ramona, CA is in the deep suburbs of San Diego county. It’s a bucolic part of the county, more rural, than true … Read more
