VoIP By The Numbers

ZDNet’s Russell Shaw has broken down the recently disclosed Harris Interactive poll data on VoIP. Most VoIP marketers that I have spoken with agree with most of the results, as it’s obvious we remain in the early adopter phase. What is also important to note is that in many ways it validates both the Vonage … Read more

Craig Walker Helping The Homeless

Former DialPad CEO, and pal, Craig Walker is helping the San Francisco homeless get back on their feet with his new venture backed Grand Central Communications company. Rather than just be another VoIP play, Walker and his team are starting out by providing free voice mail accounts to the San Francisco shelters’ homeless population so … Read more

This Makes Net Neutrality Look Tame

If this report out of the EU is true the impact on global VoIP is immense. Take Skype for example. Right now get an IP connection, use Skype to call anywhere and talk to anyone. Same for Gizmo, Yahoo or any soft client service. Toss in a little port blocking, some packet shaping, add some … Read more

Sacramento Airport Gives Away Wireless

As a frequent, almost every other week flier in and out of Sacramento International Airport I have been a regular user of the WiFi service that was run by Icoacorp and accessable via my Boingo Wireless account. As such, I was intrigued when I saw that the airport was dropping the paid model for a … Read more

Closing The (Local) Loop

If you look at the possibility of Level3 buying ICG it’s more about closing up the (local) loop and getting more local coverage to fill gaps in their transcontinental network in my opinion. A few months ago the Colorado carriers carrier picked up Progress Telecom. Obviously they are not done and this potential buy could … Read more

Spirit Chairman Comments on eBay’s Buy of Competitor

Andrew Sviridenko, Chairman of Russia based Spirit DSP sent me some comments on the Sonorit/Camino purchase by eBay/Skype. He wrote: This is Skype / eBay move in the right direction to complete with Microsoft, Google, AOL and Yahoo, as Andy points out (added Google which is very strong technology company and top eBay competitor), Skype … Read more

Comments Due From You

The comment period for the Pulver-Evslin Disaster Communications petition to the FCC is about to close. It’s time to get your comments in. This is what the FCC should be supporting, not toying around with the Telco influenced Net Neutrality issues they seem to want to focus on.

SexTel (Sprint Nextel) Now Offers VoIP

For customers of Sprint and Nextel who have cable service with select cable operators they can now get VoIP. Now only if they would offer a fixed mobile convergence service that would enable the mobile call to be switched over to an IP end point on a SIP capable device or client it would be … Read more

Gizmo Adds UK, France and Spain Inbound Numbers

Now users of GizmoProject can have inbound numbers in Spain, France and the U.K. The prices seem comparable to Skype and what’s more SipPhone has beaten Yahoo to the punch with offering numbers in Spain as Yahoo only offers in bound service in the USA, UK and France.