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O’Reilly’s eTel Conference

I just finished reviewing the line up of speakers and companies at the upcoming eTel conference at the end of February in the Bay Area and the line up is awesome. This is where the 2.0 VoIP world will be and is. Hats off to pal Surj Patel and the rest of his team at … Read more

It’s Conference Time

A week or two back was CES in Las Vegas followed by a lot of meetings for me. Tonight I’m flying on Jeff’s favorite airline, Jeff Blue, on the Red Eye from Oakland to Fort Lauderdale, FL for a compact two days of time with clients, companies that have asked to brief me and to … Read more

V-Access Is Real Yawner

Vonage has a program for global nomads who want to make cheap calls. It’s a lot like the services that have been around for years from various calling card services, the only difference from what I can tell is the tie into your Vonage number, which is really the same as an account…YAWN. I continue … Read more

Martin Trashes and Thrashes T-Mobile

A few months back I ranted about how bad T-Mobile’s customer service was. Well Martin never had the chance to even tell them he’s one of the world’s most influential telecom analysts and bloggers…his rant is proving that the issues at T-Mobile are not just localized to the USA, but seem to be global in … Read more

StreamCast Suit vs. Skype Tossed

In what will make eBay shareholders breathe a sigh of relief, the Federal courts have tossed out the StreamCast suit against Skype on grounds that Streamcast didn’t make their case well enough. Streamcast plans to pursue other matters, but give the first round victory to eBay. UPDATE-Upon some reflection in my view, this is not … Read more