Mark Evans has a nice recap on how Vonage raised another 250 million this week. Give the company credit. They sure must have one heck of a road show presentation. And 1.2 million customers is nothing too shabby. Obviously they do something right. While I may question their operating style sometimes, and am skeptical about … Read more
When Packet8 won the BellSouth trial VoIP program, they weren’t the Southeastern US’ first choice. Reports I’ve heard indicate that Broadvoice had the deal pretty much sown up, until some internal changes last summer and other machinations caused BellSouth to take a look elsewhere.
If you have a Mac you’ll like the idea of what Jon’s Phone Dialer can do for you with some select VoIP carriers (CallVantage, Vonage) plus IP phones from Cisco and the Xten line of softphones. This latest revision seems a lot smoother. I’ve got it installed and will run it through its paces over … Read more
Ovum’s Julian Hewitt has an analysts’ view on Skype, their acquisition cost to eBay and what can affect the earnout. He also poses a big “if” at the end of the summary. I’d say the jury is still out.
Well if you look at the results of the United Online charity auction, about $1,400 a subscriber. That puts a damper on companies asking $2,000 a sub who have been shopping themselves to some of the bigger names on the net. In Vonage terms that would price them at $1.4 billion, but this is all … Read more
It seems the SMB market will be a big play in 2006 for the VoIP industry. I’ve previously mentioned that companies like CallTower, Covad and Speakeasy are nicely poised in the space. Others have made noise as well. According to a Vonage spokesperson I spoke with recently, the long awaited Vonage SMB play seems to … Read more
I got told late this afternoon that the city of Taipei will be launching Wi-Fi in the city tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 20t. The little birdie told me the mayor of Taipei will be using Skype to talk the mayor of Tao Yuan – showing the power of the Skype service via the city’s new Wi-Fi … Read more
With a very detailed account of one teenage boy’s life, the New York Times today has a very extended feature on the illicit use of webcam by teens who make money selling their bodies. Over the past months I’ve mentioned on multiple occasions that the web cam market has a large percentage of “adult” conversation … Read more
Skype is expected to announce that Mandriva a publisher of the Mandriva Linux operating system, that the Mandriva 2006 Linux operating system will integrate software from Skype that add Skype capabilities. If my information is correct Mandriva Linux 2006 is the first, and only, Linux operating system to offer the Skype application.
…they would invest heavily in this phone from Nokia around the world, the way they have with the Sidekick and go all out to get the business customer on their GSM networks. The E61 will also handle SIP I’m led to believe. That would really make it a world phone for if one could get … Read more
