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My number is a secret, but you can call me here…. The new rave in the telco biz is the annonymous number. I call them, SHADOW numbers….pass it on.

Um..this is the obvious. It can only go two ways..no growth or up. Since Mobile VoIP is all about convergence then it has to go up. This is thus very good news for companies like Siemens, BridgePort Networks, Net2Phone all of whom are working to deliver the end user the opportunity to blend their cell … Read more

I just received word that Vonage’s Chief Financial Officer, John S. Rego, will appear Tuesday morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He plans to discuss Vonage’s Customer Directed Share Program, Vonage’s business and industry competition. This is the kind of messaging public companies do, and it’s not surprising to me that Rego is doing the talking … Read more

Vonage numbers keep getting more clearly identified, thanks to some math calculations by Mark Evans.

Jeff Pulver and I both are unabashed supporters of using Verizon’s Broadband Access, their so called unlimited wireless Internet access service. I think Rich Tehrani is too. Now I’m reading how in Verizon’s contract they have the right to stop users from downloading, uploading, streaming, making VoIP calls, P2P file sharing and just about anything … Read more

Jonathan Berr of TheStreet.com has a story about some Vonage customers having trouble using the broadband phone service over AOL Broadband. My guess is the modem is the cause. What would be interesting to see is if AOL’s Total Talk or any other VoIP service works at those locations.

MobieVoIP is promising VoIP capability to Palm platform users.

Looks like the M&A efforts will continue if Light Reading is on the money with one. But my sources say it’s more of a OEM or reseller deal. I met with the leadership of Sylantro that was at VON and found very little “new” that they would say with the company so maybe a shakeup … Read more

Om has started with a polling widget what I consider the first of what will be many Vonage Deadpools with his analysis of the Vonage IPO. What’s interesting is how small a number of his informed and literate readers have any confidence in Vonage’s stock price rising north of it’s IPO price of $17.00. What’s … Read more

Dan Farber, one of the more veteran technology editors out there who hangs his hat at ZDnet has a very good write up on client SightSpeed’s new beta version of their upcoming 5.0 release. I’ve been using it today and have to say the video is out of this world. The new codec makes the … Read more