I’ve been using Gizmo Project a lot lately. Even more than Skype. I’ve got Helene using it so she can talk to her office on the days we’re traveling and holed up in Hotels. My new employee Brooke uses it to talk to me when I’m on the road. i talk to clients, like Alec … Read more
James Enck analyzes the take rates of VoIP in Europe. It seems VoIP has arrived.
Tom has a post about a Vonage home movie about their customer care and Network Ops Center. having been in the AT&T NOC last year and the Level3 NOC last week, the Vonage NOC looks more like a CallCenter in a west coast boiler-room operation. AT&T and Level Three are something out of WarGames. Vonage. … Read more
In the last 48 hours I’ve had two execs who I respect in different sectors at totally different meetings tell me that CallWave is up for sale. The Santa Barbara, CA based company is in the unified messaging space. They have customers. I’ve never been a fan of the company preferring Webley Systems over them. … Read more
I’ve been on this kick about sameness in product offerings when I’ve been presenting to companies like AOL and Level3 of late. In talking recently about the state of many current offerings I coined the phrase “Me Too, Me Also, Not Me Different.” It also dawned on me that Vonage really hasn’t delivered anything new … Read more
It seems EyeBall has gotten their VoIP/SIP/IM client into beta according to Erik Lagerway.
Ben Charney in his eWeek article on who is getting big on VoIP. Funny other than my comment about the have’s and the have not’s I don’t know who else has said it. Well at least we know who Ben reads!
Today is a travel day as I head east from the left coast for the Thursday’s Peripheral Visionaries Summit.
On one hand Chinese mobile operators can be very forward thinking, like China Unicom was with their trial using Bridgeport Networks platform to move cellular calls to IP to end up on a university network. On the other hand they can be regressive by working to limit the way communications can be accomplished. The Wall … Read more
Russell Shaw has a thought provoking post about the idea of bundling voice, data and video–and soon wireless. There are two sides to this argument and he presents one of them–the risks. Shaw also challenges the independents (CallVantage, Packet8, Vonage et al) to markt counter to the bundles. Actually, I’m surprised that the counter bundles … Read more
