Level3 keeps growing their market reach and network. Today they announced the acquisition of Progress Telecom. In the past I said the WilTel acquisition which is now in integration mode, and from what I hear almost done –read head count reductions coming soon–would yield even more.
In what has to be a move to counter Skype and expand footprint, Vonage has added virtual telephone numbers across Europe. Good move.
I found this new blog site. Forget the photo, the content is what’s turning my head (remember I’m an engaged and very happy guy, who found his perfect WinePal/Geek Girl). Great coverage of VoIPSter and PhoneGnome by Christine, who works in the Valley and has some very impressive credentials.
So Om got to go to the Yahoo soriee down in Half Moon Bay, that I was also invited to, but was on the wrong coast to join up with future Yahoo Sr. VP Brad Garlinghouse and a bunch of Yahoo folks. One of the things Om confirmed is that Geoff Ralston left Yahoo, which … Read more
SkiBare tipped me off to the new Vonage approach to in home installation.Can you say “cable guy” as in Jim Carey!!! I wonder who they expect to be their Vonage professionals..Will they be GE? ITT? ex XEROX or ex Telco guys. Gee is wire line maintanence next?
A loyal field goal club member forwarded me their latest experience at VoIP Stalag 13, Packet 8 after reading my previous post about them. I called tech support today. Asked when the new features are coming out. They said, “some time within the next month. we are having server problems.” EVERY single time they try … Read more
Client VoIPSter is causing a bit of a stir with their open source approach to VoIP. They announced OpenZoep and their Firefox Browser plug in that turns the popular browser into a softphone. Bruce Stewart has the details.
Client iotum and their co-founder Alec Saunders seem to have hit stride at the ETel conference already. Bruce Stewart of Emerging Telephony, a new online VoIP news site, was suitably impressed. You can read Bruce’s thoughts here.
Reports are there are some new features coming from Packet8 soon. What they are are yet to be known, and I figure with their earnings call due in a few days that it will happen after that. There’s also the new P8 softphone, which is due soon too.
I heard through the grapevine that the in production version of Yahoo Messenger, that is being rewritten from the ground up, for the Macintosh will include Video. I’m also hearing that the USA launch of VOIP with Y! Messenger is likely within the next month or so, and certainly before VON in March. It seems … Read more
