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A report out of India has both voice and video growing in the double digits as explosive growth categories for Enterprise adoption. That has to be good news for Skype, Yahoo and client SightSpeed.

When you start reading about the Enterprise being offered products and services from leading service providers like BT you have to realize that things are no longer an if, but a when. This story, out of the UK, has British Telecom gearing up to offer a FMC play for the business world in 2007.

Of the upcoming tech IPO’s the one from Clearwire could be very interesting. Craig McCaw has proven he can be a pioneer in wireless before, so this one i sone to look at very seriously.

Om is reporting that buddy Brad Garlinghouse of Yahoo has been formally given his well deserved Senior VP stripe. For readers of VoIPWatch, that news is seven weeks old as I told you so back in March.

IP-PBX maker Mitel has filed their S-1 for a $150 million dollar flotation.

I meant to blog this yesterday but just got too busy. Over in the UK, T-Mobile is unleashing a new faster data service using HSPDA and selling it with a flat rate tarrif. But there’s a catch. They don’t want you using VoIP or Instant Messaging. At least not yet. My money is on them … Read more

Much to a lot of people’s surprise, but not mine, AOL’s Voice Services team went with Broadwing to power their upcoming new AIM Phoneline product. This couldn’t have gone down well with Level3 which powers AOL’s TotalTalk platform and was their deal to lose. One of the knocks I regularly hear about Level3, despite their … Read more

Pal and client with iotum, Alec Saunders is picking up on the same FMC vibe that others of us in the VoIP world are feeling too. Ken Camp’s insightful disection of what is causing the excitement is right on the money and as Alec is pointing out, the cable world is a big part of … Read more

Last week I was with client SightSpeed at the Always On Hollywood conference. Give my longtime pal and now SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy some credit for haveing the cajones to try a live demo, and succeeding at a conference. The bandwidth at the Roosevelt Hotel was sketchy at best, and even with a dedicated feed … Read more

I am looking into Mino, a way around high priced international cell phone calls if you have a data plan like Cingular’s Media Net, but Oliver Starr’s comments about RockeTalk on MobileCrunch have me beaming. I’m now on the RockeTalk advisory board and have to admit that in all my years of new product evaluation … Read more