Reports are that Google, a recent entrant into the messaging and voice arena is going launch a “federation” that will enable the messaging and voice players to be interoperable with one another. Expect to see the likes of the SIP crowd in it. My guess is that SipPhone will be one of the first to … Read more
For as long as I’ve been writing about VoIP I’ve been saying that it’s the apps that matter. It seems one of the more veteran VCs in Silicon Valley is on that page also. The app she’s referring to in the Business 2.0 story by Michael Copeland isreally a VoiceXML type of application that shouldn’t … Read more
Telcotrash has an account of how more South American cable operators are moving into VoIP using Cedar Point Communications switches. South America is a growing market which explains why Jeff Pulver’s crew are organizing a VON even in Mexico City next year.
News hawk Paul Kapustka, one of the embedded discussants at the VON Blogger Panel I have the good fortune to moderate breaks the news about Vonage customers being charged more money by a cable company to access the VoIP service. Given the change in stance with the FCC under Chairman Martin this may be a … Read more
Om and PaidContent both have notes about Yahoo and more DSL deals. These onramp deals for content continue to point to reasons why Yahoo won’t go into the PSTN replacement business any time soon. Yahoo’s on ramp relationships with co-branded DSL programs that are in essence dial up takeaways from AOL. That’s more important to … Read more
A few weeks back I had the opportunity to interview David Beckemeyer, CEO of TelEvolution and the inventor of PhoneGnome. The interview is now available for your listening pleasure.
Jeff is in London and ran into a port blocking experience, something I have also experienced in New Jersey last year. My feeling is if your paying xx pounds a day for High Speed Internet, you should have high speed Internet, not just access to the Web or Email. For my trips to Europe the … Read more
According to a report out of Taiwan, it would seem that Yahoo is possibly expanding their efforts there in VoIP.
Pal Martin Geddes has a very relevant rant about the issues with Skype and even BT Communicator when it comes to QoS (Quality of Service). I recently posed a question to Level3 about the issues associated with Skype here in the USA, and still await my answers from their engineering team.
MSNBC has a story out of Denver about E911 being ready, highlighting local companies in the Denver area including Qwest, NGT and Intrado. Intrado is making a lot of noise around AT&T being a customer. What they are doing is only supplying the Nomadic users with those services as a substitute for AT&T’s own in-house … Read more
