The Wall Street Journal jumps the embargo due to the way their computer system puts stories to bed. But Walt’s, review is rather deep, and in typical style very detailed. I’ll have more in the morning after I’ve digested the release and spoken to some Skype people.
Vonage and VoicePulse are thumbing their noses at the FCC in complete defiance of the order. To date Vonage has not met a reasonable level of compliance and continues to sell service even where it can’t provision E911. VoicePulse has lightly engaged in double-speak by saying it plans on complying, but it hasn’t yet and … Read more
A Center Ice Circle club reader sent me the following tonight. Other than masking his identity here’s what he had to say: Your post yesterday regarding Packet8’s press release was slightly in error. Packet8 does not actually claim that they have provided E911 to all U.S. customers (althought they DO try and convey that impression). … Read more
Pal Jon Arnold had a blog post over the weekend about how client TelEvolution’s PhoneGnome was there for him during a power outage in a snow storm. It’s a charming story. Speaking of PhoneGnome, CEO David Beckemeyer will be on hand tomorrow night Wednesday November 30th at the CommNexus GadgetFest which Ken Rutkowski and I … Read more
Jeff has a very good point in his post today. We actually talked about this back at the Visionary Summit a few weeks back in Washington D.C. I support his perspective and tend to take a different approach. Since I represent some companies in the space I blog about I preface them with the word … Read more
I’m winging westward at 33,000 to 37,000 feet on Lufthansa 468 headed to Portland from Frankfurt as I blog this. I’ve already Skyped and Gizmo’d on the way over so I guess I’m in the Mile High Club now for VoIPsters. In Europe I used three different mobile carriers. Transatel in France who I have … Read more
As long as the customer is in the United States, all Packet8 subscribers now have E-911 according to their morning announcement today. It seems both they and AOL because of Level3’s support and partners have this pretty much nailed down. AT&T also has been rather forthright and aggressive in this area. Vonage though finally went … Read more
There’s a posting on Craigslist for a job at Skype as Product Manager leading the integration with PayPal.
Now about two and a half months since acquisition eBay has made some moves to put some layers of management into the free wheeling, radical minded Skype. An eBay insider, Henry Gomez has been named general manager of Skype North America. The newly-formed division has been established to better serve Skype users in the region. … Read more
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a phone like this end up on Helio, the new Earthlink-SK-Telecom joint venture. The beauty of this is with the right network configurations a call to your cell number could end up on your SIP client using IMS and or eNUM. What that would mean is cheaper international calling … Read more
