It’s nice to see I’m not the only one feeling the way I do about Vonage and to some extent, Skype. Bryan Richards, in a very critical story over at VoIP Magazine takes Vonage to task and lays the smack down on Skype to boot.
Erik Lagerway, who is a friend guest posted on Om Malik’s blog about the whole idea of silos. Friend and client David Beckemeyer, creator of PhoneGnome has developed a platform and “thing” as he calls it in PhoneGnome that provides exactly what both Om and Erik are speaking/writing about. What’s amazing is the traditional press … Read more
I’m a big believer that it’s when, not if, that we will see Mobile VoIP and true Mobile IP phones very soon. I’ve talked previously about the phones coming from Kyocera that will work with both 3G and WiFi networks that Boingo will be deploying. Skype is also making noises like they will be in … Read more
Already only a few days after Aswath posted and I referred to it and now others are catching up. Om, doing his usual sleuthing has found an even more disconcerting issue. Read through the links and see this is a SERIOUS issue.
Om has a post about Fonality getting $5 million in funding. They were on my panel last January at the Internet Telephony Expo in Los Angeles. It’s nice to see companies that aren’t in Silicon Valley raising cash.
Jeff warns of the pending double dip. Don’t be surprised if it’s more than the phone companies who start this approach. Why wouldn’t the wireless folks do the same. Are we entering an era where the onramps are toll roads and not freeways any more?
The more I see coming out about Video over the Internet, the more I think you will be hearing and seeing more of each other this year.
The day is coming. All get ready. Are you sensing a trend? Not only are other bloggers writing it, they’re all pointing to the signs of the VoIP to Mobile and Mobile to VoIP convergence occuring. This is a bandwagon I have been on for some time and really feel like eurovoip writes here that … Read more
In what must have been the most overlooked post in the VoIP world by those not at CES while the rest of us were, this Awath Heat Seeking Missive about the Skype Netgear announcement, Aswath “He’s Too Darn Smart” Rao has issued a warning about the new Netgear Skype WiFi phones before they are even … Read more
So after you become one of the biggest builders of cellular networks and the leading supplier of hardware and handsets in the world what do you do? You go out and disrupt the literal crap out of your customers. That’s what this post from Thomas Anglero at Telecom Tsunami has rightfully pointed out. There is … Read more
