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I’m hosting a panel on Mobile VoIP at the June MuniWifi conference so I was happy to see Ted dig up a posting on Esme Vos’ most excellent site about how to do MuniWiFi right.

As a rule I tend not to blatently and overtly efuse praise for my clients and let others in the media and blogosphere do their talking for me. Call it professionalism, courtesy and respect for others and also to steer clear of hype. One of the clients of our agency, and one that I not … Read more

Om has a post around the controversy of Skype blocking.

The hype from Netgear about their Skype phone continues. Back in January at CES word of this came froward via a press conference. I asked then, and I continue to wonder if this will work with Skype Zones, the hot spot program. The phone, which ships on June 30 lets you receive calls in WiFi … Read more

Add Earthlink to the companies using Linksys telephone adapters.

The Omoscope must have been turned on really early this morning as the o-meister put his investment banker viewpoint and deciphered the recently reported numbers from Skype and they’re not as fantastic as I’m sure some would like if the word “earn out” is part of their future financial planning. Om points out that the … Read more

Give Russell props for digging out this story today. This is one of the great humanitarian efforts that the VoIP community should feel proud of. Cisco kicked in and made it happen. I see this as the tip of the iceberg for a Cisco pincer movement in the VoIP business community. Cisco is one smart … Read more

Seems pal Michael Robertson’s SipPhone, which is best known for GizmoProject, is being viewed by some investors as something better than Vonage…gee you don’t say.

Business Week has a chart posted that shows the ramp rate that VoIP is seeing around the globe. If you look closely you’ll see the big year will be 2007 in actual numbers not percentage.

It looks like a British Telecom advertising complaint about ActionTec’s VoSky device was upheld. Seems they don’t like the claims, but really it sounds more like an end around move to slow down the uptake of Skype by BT to me. The contention is that VoSky’s advert didn’t mention the need for broadband and an … Read more