TMCnet is reporting that NGT, one of the leading Level3 resellers has created a private labeled VoIP service. What this means is enterprise customers will get very high quality VoIP platform with solid support and robust capabilities. This is a play to watch in my opinion.
Just in time for his wedding, Jeff Bonforte at Yahoo has earned the stripes and been promoted to Vice President. To me, and readers here, that’s called Old News as we had predicted it months ago for the “Rock Star.” I’ll be sure to raise a glass this week for him…..while I’m planning my wedding.
Paul Kapustka can write one mean story and he’s got the good stuff going with just what AT&T is up to and how much it may cost them.
Mon 09/04/2007 16:15 09042007037
Daniel Berninger explains why the patent mess that Vonage is caught up in exists in a very much dead on the money post. In many ways the current patent enforcement actions remind me of the way states went after trading card companies using lottery laws. No harm was being done the way things were, but … Read more
Sun 08/04/2007 13:46 08042007031
Ted Wallingford and I seem to agree more times than not and I’m thrilled to see what he wrote as it is so true. The consumer market vs. nerds, early adopter and the “I gotta have it (insert heavy breathing) now crowd is not the market. The market is the mass market and until people … Read more
No surprise here that the iPhone from Apple that will be sold in the USA by Cingular will offer a “walled garden” approach to content and Internet access. Pal Michael Robertson has been whispering that tale since January to his friends. I’ve heard the same from others. Translation…no VoIP. No iChat.
So here’s the story out of the Red Herring saying the sky is falling on VoIP and VoIP companies. I don’t think so. 1) Verizon could license the technology. $58 million dollars is less than 10 million a year. Vonage’s spend is less than that per week on Marketing. 2) Other companies likely have technology … Read more
I am constantly amazed that just because an FCC rule is passed that people think that marketing efforts will be curtailed based on some rules to prohibit information sharing between partners. Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of direct marketing knows that consumer profiling can be done with cross tabbing multiple data sources from … Read more
