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
Covad is apparently testing a pre-WiMax solution. Obviously they want to cut the cord and be free of the other carriers they have to play with in order to deliver DSL.
Splitting time as much as I do between San Diego, San Jose and Sacramento puts me sometimes in a place where cell service isn’t always plentiful. Over the weekend I learned something new when I asked myself why I have to call long distance to use CallVantage’s Control By Phone so calls made from places … Read more
Stuart Henshall, grand wizard of SkypeJournal has ripped the Skype team for their lousy eco-system. When you think what eBay has done with the cottage industry that has sprung up, what Sun has done with Java, Oracle with their Oracle programmers and consultants, or what Apple has done around iTunes with third party add-ons, one … Read more
Today two press releases crossed the wire about E911 of importance, one from Verizon and the other from AT&T. While each company is rolling out E911 that works just like PSTN 911, AT&T seems to have taken the better approach. They’ve been doing it quietly since April, while Verizon puts out their announcement saying it … Read more
News about the long awaited Keynote Systems VoIP study is out, and no surprise AT&T CallVantage won for best quality, while surprisingly Vonage won for most reliable carrier. Internet Telephony also has a viewpoint. No study is ever perfect, but this is what we in marketing like to call a “stake in the ground.” In … Read more
I sure hope this isn’t true or Comcast will end up in court.
Skype is trying the “sampling” route, which is a marketing tactic I tend to agree with. Mark Evans has the news. Om finds issues with Skype Out though. So do I.
Just after my post below, I came across this post from East Asian blogger/reporter and pal Jeremy Wagstaff about Skype In the Classroom. Now only if Apple had really kept going with their Apple In the Classroom program as great guns as they had in the early days. Then it would have been iChat instead … Read more
