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San Diego’s Qualcomm has made some moves with VoIP and EvDO. The announcement clearly means that Voice over data won’t be as hard to do with the carriers once Q makes it happen in my mind.

Microsoft and Yahoo may keep working on integration of IM clients and platforms, but I want to know if it will have VoIP in the mix,

Alec calls it the VoIP “A” Bomb, and I didn’t even lob it. All I know is the Net2Phone case still hasn’t named the John Does 1-10 yet as outlined in the complaint. Any bets on who Mr. Big ends up being? Oh, and the info on the patents in this SEC document makes for … Read more

GlobalComm is supposed to replace SuperComm. Vonage is supposed to replace your old Phone company. What do they both have in common? Their numbers are going down!!! Nearly everyone here in Chicago is calling GlobalComm a total bust. Numbers of people are way down from SuperComm and about the most exciting thing going on is … Read more

Dialing for miles is nothing new. The wireless and alternative long distance companies have been playing that game for months, but as Tom points out, this is nothing really that great. Being imaginative in the area of promotion isn’t hard to do. What’s sad is how so many VoIP companies seem to just be me … Read more

Level 3 keeps buying up additonal companies. Today they announced they acquired another all fiber based provider in Looking Glass Networks.

Add Global Crossing to the growing list of Peering Fabric type of companies. Ipeerex, Xconnect, Stealth Communications and others. One has to wonder if Level3, AT&T and Verizon will also all start offering this too. One things for sure, when calls stay on net, the costs drop, and when they peer over the same carrier, … Read more

Over the weekend I extolled the virtues of RadioHandi, a new angel backed startup that has some very cool features and a promising future. So today I found that Frost and Sullivan has issued a report on the VoIP conferencing sector that only furthers my belief that Brian McConnell and his team are onto something … Read more

Om does a very good job of breaking down the planned Acme Packets IPO for the session border controller company. One concern I have about the planned IPO is Cisco. They’re not visible in the space at all as far as I can tell. Yet.

…SkiBare thinks so…