The Mobile VoIP Future

Jesse Kopelman has a guest column GigaOm and goes into lengthy detail about the next wave of mobile phone service that’s looming here in the USA and tells us who he expects the players to be. As a current EvDO mobile data user when I’m on the road, I can admit that voice today is … Read more

VoIP Prices Going Up?

If you’re using VoIP here in the USA there is a good chance that the price of your monthly service will be going up due to an appeals court’s decision that says VoIP providers need to contribute to the Universal Services Fund.

Client in the News: WebDialogs

Web collaboration leader WebDialogs was asked by Skype to tell the highly influential developer audience at O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony (aka eTel) what its like to work with them. WebDialogs CTO Gershon Goren pulls no punches in this first hand experience based contributed article in eTel today.

Servicemen in South Korea Lose VoIP Options

It looks like the country of South Korea is determining who can run phone services based on VoIP. Starting this week USA servicemen based there will have to use South Korean based VoIP providers knocking out USA companies that have been working over there. No word if Skype is affected, as it appears that carriers … Read more

Jangl Grows Up

Social VoIP player Jangl moves into a more mature market with a new Facebook widget that allows anonymous calling between Facebook members.

Wales Has More HotSpots

If you need to be online as you travel around the UK, you may want to make Wales your destination. A news account issued by Ofcom that appeared in Broadband Finder shows that Wales has more WiFi hotspots than any other country on a per million basis.

Jajah Adds DT To List o Customers

According to Reuters, Jajah is hooking up with T-Online, as the first step in a relationship with Deutsche Telekom AG. With their Intel backing and now this deal with one of the world’s telecom giants, Jajah is showing incredible business development acumen and clearly is leveraging their investors and allied friends.

Cisco and Nokia Getting Into FMC Game

Information Week has a story about Nokia’s Intellisync software and Cisco finding ways to team up to deliver Fixed Mobile Convergence to the Enterprise market on Nokia E-series phones. What’s clear to me is that FMC is starting to get some attention from the carriers, but what remains unclear is which carrier will really make … Read more