In 18 states where Sprint used to have local phone service, its now using the name Embarq, a spinout company. In the markets it serves the renamed legacy carrier is doing its best to stave off the incursion of the cable company’s efforts to switch customer’s to VoIP. I see the value in marketing, which … Read more
More and more we’re seeing stories hit the mainstream press about phone calls being made over WiFi. For the record, T-Mobile and Earthlink both have initiatives in that are here in the USA but carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T have both done their best to slow the migration in that direction down, while in … Read more
Cisco has taken the market proven idea of Push To Talk (PTT) and married it with VoIP. Its real value is the ability for anyone to reach anyone on their phone network the same way an intercom worked in days of old. This also means that the annoying Nextel like BEEPS can now be heard … Read more
Here’s a trick to log in to GoogleTalk on a PC with multiple accounts. And here’s some insight that leads one to believe even more that Google is getting ready to go after Skype and the PSTN market too with VoIP calls that go beyond the GTALK universe. Note the dialpad.
I’ve been privately very concerned about the drop off in call quality via Skype Out so the news about Skype striking a global termination relationship with TeleGlobe may help reduce my concerns.
Those wanting to take Asterisk and make it more accessible from a programming standpoint may want to look into the series of projects that make up Talking Ruby. Based upon Ruby on Rails, the ideas here are fast development, standards based and easy to use. Skies the limit, with imagination being the only thing needed.
There’s a lot to be said about the perils of jumping on a network that belongs to someone else. In this case getting on a coffee shop’s free network without being a patron of the coffee shop landed someone in a heap of trouble. Basically this is trespass laws being taken to the digital realm. … Read more
I love all the coverage that we give to “free” calling. Aswath brings up the kind of clarity to the point of “free” that really needs to be expounded upon. I am a believer that costs of calls have dropped to zero. Just look at Skype, Gizmo and other services like that which leverage infrastructure … Read more
Analyst blogger, Jon Arnold, takes a close look at Mobivox, a service whose premise I like a lot. Why? First it really does lower cost of calling. Second it shows that David Beckemeyer’s vision of PhoneGnome and voice applications is being adopted by others. Third Mobivox is agnostic. It doesn’t care if your on Skype … Read more
It’s one thing to run VoIP over WiFi on a cell phone like can be done with GizmoProject and Truphone, but to expect the carriers to sit idle and just watch calls run over data networks on all you can eat data plans is something that I expect to not go very far. While EQO … Read more
