Flash Phone Stirs Up Developer World

A report out of Seattle has a new company stirring up the telecom sector with a web based Flash VoIP platform. The company called Ribbit has taken the concept that Gizmo Project has also tried, as have folks at Adobe and impressed one of the ZDNet bloggers. The implications of this are very huge as … Read more

VoIP On Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic

Sir Richard may be on to something, and a hat tip to Russell Shaw for finding this one. As someone who has user Internet on planes to and from Europe, it sure makes the trip easier. I’ve also made calls from the plane and even received one or two. VoIP on Virgin…heck I love the … Read more

Muni WiFi and VoIP

Tech Republic offers insight about VoIP and MuniWifi compatibility and provides some meaningful commentary. Given my sub par experience with Earthlink’s Voice over WiFi in a muni build out in both Anaheim and Philadelphia I have to say that part of the blame is the deployment of a mesh network architecture from Tropos. Tropos officials … Read more

Fring Sounding Better All The Time

The folks at Fring raised 12 million, which is a good thing to hear in some regards as it continues to validate the belief by many that voice over the data networks of mobile operators will eventually happen. But I’m more impressed with how they have reportedly improved their audio quality and just how great … Read more

Woes Tied To Sun Rocket Continue

In what will go down as one of the most painful pills swallowed in VOIP, Russell Shaw continues to document the woes of former Sun Rocket customers, this time dealing with the customer list possibly being made available to Vonage. Shaw previously covered reported outages tied to the new SunRocket, aka Teleblend, a company whose … Read more

T-Mobile And VoIP

I have often felt that the first mobile operator to move into the VoIP world would see a lot of traction, and provide the first real threat to the cable operators. While AT&T could be that market leader because they already have all the parts to make a true FMC play happen, and while Sprint … Read more

AT&T Flexible Reach Sounds Like CallVantage for Business

I read the press release this morning about the new IP Enabled offering from AT&T that is aimed at the business market called “Flexible Reach.” In many ways it reminded me of CallVantage, both in marketing tone and feature set, with the difference being the target audience being the business market that has multiple office … Read more