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According to a report over at Information Week, there is lots of room for growth in the IM space in the USA. What was surprising was the small number attributed to Skype, at only 3 percent.

While we all know VoIP will erode the tradtional landline business, for some carriers there are still ways to keep the traffic on their legacy networks, especially for customers who don’t need the next generation capabilities of VoIP. In Australia, Phone giant Telstra is starting to make some moves against the VoIP operators by simply … Read more

While no one’s saying, it seems that the natives are getting restless at Vodafone and the rumors of their blocking VoIP on their mobile networks data side are swirling. And that means Skype is their first target, at least in Ben Charney’s view. This is a continuation of the mobile operators walled garden approach to … Read more

Skype made a strategic move today when it acquired Sonorit Holding and its USA subsidiary Camino Networks for what amounts to $27 million in eBay stock. One can only speculate but this appears to help fill some core needs as Skype and eBay seek to be less dependent on licensed technology and want more of … Read more

VoIP and the Internet are making possible the use of far away call centers to serve the role of order takers for McDonald’s drive thurs. The claim is that this is all about speed, but I’m suspecting there is another reason. It’s the language barrier. It’s getting harder and harder for  quick serve restaurants to … Read more

Luca Filigheddu has some news on how VoIP will work in Italy.

While it may not be the biggest town in the USA,  Clearwire is rolling out VoIP with their Pre-WiMax service in Stockton, CA.

Acquisitions seem to be happening and this time it’s Israel’s Comverse that did the buying, picking off NetCentrex at a very fair price. NetCentrex is one of these companies that had a great core technology, bit was lacking the big customer wins it needed to be a serious player. Now with Comverse their technology may … Read more

Give the guys at Wal-Mart credit as they will be mass marketing Comcast’s VoIP service. I was tipped off to this via SkiBare of VoIPNuke.com and have to say that this could the explosion for VoIP that many have been waiting for. It also makes one wonder why neither AT&T, VONAGE or any of the … Read more

There was a lot of speculation in some corners at CTIA if UMA will ever see the light of day. Despite it being pushed by Nokia (an agency client) and others there remains some wonderment if it will really be the defining Mobile/VoIP standard. At CTIA I saw the Outsmart and BridgePort Networks solutions and … Read more