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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

Jangl’s new multi-layered approach to making a phone call took on a new method to establish the connection in a masked manner. Email. Simply put, if you can send someone an email, you can tell them you want too talk with them, and Jangl starts up the process of making the call using the “masked” … Read more

With a plan to bundle in VoIP looming for Earthlink in their WiFi plays, it looks like the City of Philadelphia is one step closer to being WiFi VoIP ready with the successful testing and rollout happening in Philadelphia.

The folks at Gaboogie know there VoIP. One of the issues they face is the call quality issue between all the different access providers. In doing their research they’ve found that Vonage isn’t really cutting the mustard in the quality department. That’s no surprise. Vonage uses the open “Public” internet and has never contended that … Read more

I just got the word from the folks at GizmoProject’s parent company, SipPhone that they have taken a page out of the books of Mint Telecom and others that let you establish a phone number in one location and have it ring in another. Okay. Not much new about that. But here’s the kicker. It’s … Read more