Skype Journal has some facts about Skype posted today. Basically the stats reveal that at maximum slightly under 2 percent of the downloads reflect users online versus downloads, but the downloads reflect almost a 3x download of Skype per user. Nowhere in the math are the corrections for those of us who have multiple devices … Read more
He’s been gone for a few months building out an all SIP network for Canadian telco Shift, but now that the work is done, Erik Lagerway is back at blogging with SIPThat.
A few months back CNET/ZDNet put me up on stage and I produced a series at their very revealing white board. Now it seems the folks at AT&T who sponsored the series liked it so much they have promoted it via email and on their AT&T Network Exchange web site which is geared for the … Read more
Om Malik of GigaOm and Surj Patel of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony event spent the last few months looking for what’s new in VoIP and have lined up seven companies to tell their story in seven minutes in front of the eTel faithful. –GrandCentral Communications –Jive Software –Cellcrypt –Peerant –mySay –Flat Planet Phone Co. –Mig33 The … Read more
Despite reporting a better revenue picture Vonage had their weakest sales quarter in some time. What’s more it seems the cable folks continue to grow their VoIP customer base.
Could this be a sign that the T-Mobile trial in Seattle isn’t faring very well? Or it could just be the denial that VoIP, FMC, UMA and all that is IP is just not really understood very well by T-Mobile.
Peter Zottolo, aka “The SightSpeed Guy” has moved up as he becomes the cohost of the new DirectTV “Fizz Newzz” program. CEO of SightSpeed, Peter Csathy provides his take on the changing talent spotting scene while fellow bloggers Ted Wallingford, Paul Kapustka add additional perspective as well as Jon Arnold’s analyst’s perspective.
While longtime blog readers will not find much new here in this USA Today story, it does provide a state of the VoIP world as the mass media sees it. It would be interesting to hear what the researchers at Level3 have to say about this.
For those of us who ever had a Nokia 9000 series phone in the past and wished it did more, the new E90 announced at 3GSM today may be a dream come true. If TruPhone, AbbeyPhone and GizmoProject can be made to run on this, and if GoodLink comes out running on it as it … Read more
WiFi Net News reports that the WiFi Alliance has certified almost 100 phones that can work on WiFi networks. Some are dual mode, others are WiFi only. My experience has been once you get the phones set up, which is the major hurdle, they tend to work very well.
