A loyal reader tipped me to Internet Telephony’s Rich Tehrani having the jump on the possible buy of Vonage by BellSouth. The price of $3.5 billion seems almost excessive and for 800,000 customer or so, no real in house technology, a team that would largely go bye bye after acquisition, I don’t see the value. … Read more
Obviously with energy a declining sector in Texas, and with a company like AT&T moving there, it’s no surprise that Governor Perry is now making some populist appearing moves that benefit the elitists who keep things going in the USA’s biggest state. For those in the telecom sector, this is only good news.
A few days ago this story about Broadband over Powerlines came out. The more I think about it, the more I think that VoIP is a big part of this, because it’s not what and who you see, it’s who and what you don’t that matters. What one has to do is look at the … Read more
Vonage continues to spend ad dollars like a sailor on liberty after months at sea. Now they are opening the checkbook and dolling out cash in Canada according to Mark Evan’s post today.
James is beginning to assemble his analysis of the current OFCOM report. My guess is in one year the uptake of VoIP in the UK will follow now that Broadband is demonstrating growth, and price erosion.
BT, in an attempt to drive more usage of their BT-Yahoo Communicator and other VoIP based services has added a highly popular Page 3 girl to their advertising efforts. Michelle Marsh is the lucky lady. Makes me wonder if Yahoo’s VoIP exec’s are planning to check out the USA’s finest fillies for their campaign…
While rumors about Teleo being bought by Microsoft swirl, one move made was the agreement by the worlds biggest software maker was to license the Global IP Sound Codec. So why do they need to buy Teleo if they have the guts of it and an already existing Messenger product? James weighs in with some … Read more
It looks like Korea’s top two handset manufacturers will be out with high end converged devices for WiFi and GSM use.
I just hung up with Boingo customer service which is getting calls from their existing users who pay $21.95 a month wondering why Skype users will pay the equal of one day’s rate on their day pass program for unlimited access. The truth is, at least as far as Boingo Support claims, that they won’t … Read more
When Telsym went under Boingo was without a partner. In Skype they get a large user base, and a workable technology that gives them Voice today, not in the future. The deal strikes me overall as logical, but for those already on Boingo, it means nothing, if they already have Skype unless it becomes a … Read more
