Ted Wallingford has a new home. DownloadSquad.com, as it seems the powers at be over at Weblogs decided to not continue to devote space to VoIP any longer. I’ve offered Ted the opportunity to post here at VoIPWatch if he ever wants to. Anyway, he makes a really good point about free. It’s something the … Read more
Jon Arnold thinks the delay by Toronto Hydro Telecom on their Muni WiFi plans could only happen in Canada. Obviously Jon Arnold has never had to deal with organizations like the California Coastal Comission or the City of Del Mar’s Design Review board. The would both make the challenges that are being aired seem mild. … Read more
Jon Arnold thinks the delay by Toronto Hydro Telecom on their Muni WiFi plans could only happen in Canada. Obviously Jon Arnold has never had to deal with organizations like the California Coastal Comission or the City of Del Mar’s Design Review board. The would both make the challenges that are being aired seem mild. … Read more
Never give scamers tools they can exploit, because they will. Since Asterisk is open source and easy to acquire, and because it is so powerful, some of the most inventive minds in technology, the ones that develop scams, have found a way to exploit Asterisk to go Vishing, a new term to describe phishing type … Read more
Skype wants to own the trademark, “the whole world can talk for free.” With the price of telephony dropping to zero one has to wonder how about the implications like Russell Shaw ponders on in his post today.Now, Skype does have things going for them. 1. They have been using the line2. They do enable … Read more
Cynthia Brumfield did a better job at explaining Skype and their contribution to the eBay balance sheet than eBay’s own people did.See her candid observations here.
Mark Evans entitled his post on Gizmo Project move to what is basically free calling, "Telco Hell". That sorta implies that my pal Michael Robertson is the devil in disguise (something at least a few people at Microsoft would likely agree with,) but to many he’s really an angel, with a bad boy streak who … Read more
The last VON event in San Jose the FCC was noticably absent. Now through some soft shoe work Jeff and the team at Pulver are working hard to ingratiate themselves once again with Chairman Martin and others. It’s called detente, and Jeff has been VoIP’s lead ambassador to the FCC for many years. But now … Read more
AT&T has made a move into the Muni WiFi space, meaning things are really getting very interesting. For the longest time the MuniWiFi space was being dominated by little known startups who built things from scratch, serving as quasi integrators even though the big telcos and cable guys already had enough fiber in the ground … Read more
AT&T has made a move into the Muni WiFi space, meaning things are really getting very interesting. For the longest time the MuniWiFi space was being dominated by little known startups who built things from scratch, serving as quasi integrators even though the big telcos and cable guys already had enough fiber in the ground … Read more
