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Reports are a new VoIP play is coming out of the valley called OOMA. Nice name. Interesting board and a promise to do for telephony what Napster did for music.

Tom Keating finds out that Vonage is pursuing a very cheap monthly pricing strategy to retain users. This is called “churn prevention” and is much like running a charge twice on a credit card knowing that it will be 30-60 days before the error is caught and credited. It makes the numbers appear better, but … Read more

Rich has a very thought provoking post about VoIP resellers. I’ll concur that he does one heck of a job at bringing the resellers together at the TMCnet Internet Telephony conferences. As a matter of fact he likely does the best job of telling the world that resellers will be at their conferences. There’s one … Read more

I am outraged that anyone would question my good friend Om’s credibility, integrity and objectivity as Valleywag and a few others chose to do. Om today bared his soul in a post in response in a very professional way. Given both my professional, personal and blogger relationship with him for now over three years I … Read more

It’s great to see client iotum getting more accolades from the mainstream technology press. At Enterprise 2.0 founder Alec Saunders was up against a lot of powerful competition but seem to catch Information Week’s Nick Hoover’s eyes and ears.

Take a look at how to contact the “New” AT&T Public and Media Relations Department. Email. No Phone Numbers. By the way. Most of these people do not work for AT&T at all. They work for an independent PR firm. I guess AT&T is trying to tell us that the phone call is an outdated … Read more

Why has Vonage gotten quiet? Companies that operate in the public eye on an almost daily basis with publicity and ongoing outreach from their inception that all of a sudden go very quiet makes me wonder if something is up. Why do I say that? Vonage for years has put out press releases almost weekly, … Read more

Using the Packet Cable Multimedia specification from Cable Labs, Broadsoft is hoping to boost their hosted PBX technology sales in the business market by striking a deal with Cox Business Services. I’m a big believer in hosted voice services for a few reasons. First upgrades are much easier. Second there isn’t any need for on … Read more

One has to wonder why we haven’t seen a guide like this from the USA telcos. Oh. Maybe they’re really not into driving customers to VoIP.

While all the details are sketchy at this hour it seems that $40 million in strategic money from companies like Intel and T-Mobile will provide for a lot of room to do some very creative things. From what I’m hearing the Jajah team is taking dead aim at Skype with some marketing efforts and also … Read more