The Broadband VoIP Wars-Who Is Winning?

It’s becoming clear to me that the MSO’s are winning the war for attracting VoIP customers. This report from SandVine indicates that, and a few other things, like Vonage not really gaining any traction outside the USA. At the same time, Yankee Group has released a projection that shows VoIP will continue to grow saying … Read more

More eBayization of Skype

In what has to be viewed as a promotion and an insertion at the same time, eBay has moved their UK General Counsel into the position to oversee all Skype legal and regulatory affairs.

More on SkypeTones

Since news and details are so sketchy, I went out and talked to some friends in the music business and ring tone sector to get some more insight about what this could mean to Skype and the music business. Overall, the feeling is unanimous that there is more to the deal than RingTones and images. … Read more

Tello Explained

Last week a rocking big story broke in the Wall Street Journal about Tello, a company that has extremely deep roots in VoIP, especially when you realize that the essence of the company is Presence, and the person who has been championing presence almost as long as he has been championing VoIP is Jeff Pulver. … Read more

Is Skype Trying To Keep Things Secret?

Why in anyone’s mind would a deal between SalesForce.com and eBay/Skype be kept mostly under wraps? No it wasn’t under wraps. I missed it. (see above) and so did a lot of the other VoIP bloggers. The implications of a Skype & SalesForce.com alliance are huge.  What’s bigger than Skype getting into the business of … Read more

AOL Widens Broadband Offerings

Taking a page out of Yahoo’s playbook, AOL has announced a series of relationships with DSL providers to help migrate their users from dial up to broadband for as little as two dollars over their dial up package price of $24.95. Expect to see a bundle deal with the MSO’s coming down the pike would … Read more