Alec Saunders has written a really tasty post about how to work best with and against Microsoft. His post entitled “Akido, Retreat or War. What’s Your Microsoft strategy” is a must read and dead on the mark. It’s causing quite a bit of commentary too. Skype Journal’s Jim Courtney and Ken Camp at Digital Common … Read more
ZDNet’s Dan Farber and Larry Dignan have a column on what options people may have who end up out of luck if Vonage goes down. While conventional wisdom may lean towards the local cable MSOs, it seems the early adopter type readers of ZDNet would favor another VoIP player. In my view this is excellent … Read more
The latest tonight is that Vonage received a stay of execution….the release tells it all….from the Vonage perspective.
As background I was a huge fan of Helio from the start. I believed that Sky Dayton was onto something. In the beginning I received press releases, media kits and everything and I became even more impressed. Then, the info stopped flowing. Now it seems to have started again. What was funny was now that … Read more
Barrons has a story about how Comcast is poised to pass Vonage as the USA’s number one VoIP provider. What’s more interesting is how the story clearly points out how the cable guys are winning the battle over both the startups and the telcos. This is not a surprise to those of us in the … Read more
A report on Hoovers has the Earthlink and SK Telecom backed Helio bleeding cash and possibly on the ropes. It seems in the USA MVNO’s just don’t make it, as the failed Disney MVNO and now this would seem to indicate. Beyond some very cool phones, Helio is still not offering too much in the … Read more
I recently sat in on a podcast with client and good friend from Covad, Simon McIver that was moderated by PulverMedia’s Carl Ford.
In what can’t be a good sign, Vonage has delayed the filing of their annual report. Obviously they are having to look hard at their numbers in light of the Verizon judgement related to patents and how those costs impact the fiscal year’s balance sheet.
It looks like another company is going to take a run at in-flight WiFi access according to the Wall Street Journal. This is great news for those of us who use air travel time as a work time, but will pose some challenges. I’m not exactly thrilled about the idea of Voice being blocked, but … Read more
I’ve lost track of where Packet8 is with subscribers these days, but with the news about SunRocket breaking the 200,000 subscriber level this has to make them either number two or number three in non-cable MSO users.
