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Check out this new, inexpensive, Linux based VoIP phone that is being sold in Europe.

Off On Another Tangent highlights Mobivox and their low cost IVR driven solution in a recent post about Free Calling Options Revisited. That got me thinking how services like Mobivox, Jangl, Jajah and those from agency clients Truphone, iotum, GrandCentral and TalkPlus actually are driving the use of cell plan minutes. Here’s my logic: 1) … Read more

Forget PSTN. As nations emerge from third world to second world status they don’t mess around with old technology. They move right to what is at the top of the heap. In the case of Vietnam they are rapidly moving towards VoIP.

TechCrunch does a seven month update on GrandCentral which is really a review, much in the mode of what TechCrunch was when it started.

Much to my surprise the “free” morning paper all the years I’ve been staying in Hiltons now have a charge. USA Today, which for many years gave papers away at hotels in order to boost their circulation now carry a charge of .75 cents. If you don’t want it, you have to tell the front … Read more

Trustive, one of the global hotspot roaming programs has joined up with Wayport. This opens up the USA market to Trustive’s European subscribers.

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

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.

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.

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