For those who don’t know, I was one of the guys who got involved in streaming media back in the 90’s. I’m constantly amazed at how in some ways other than there being more pipe (i.e. better, faster bandwidth to the home) and better compression technology, not much has really changed. That was until today. … Read more
In what I think is an excellent story by Carolyn Schuck, Voxilla has a detailed account of VoIP Fraud.
Michael Robertson is the ultimate disruptor. First he brought out MP3.com, then Lindows. Each caused controversy. Now he’s rolling out Gizmo, a softphone based telephone service with realistic pricing, In and Out features, interoperability to SIP networks and using the SIP standard. While the service, client and web site are all just in BETA, and … Read more
Funny this post came up yesterday. I was having a discussion yesterday with a veteran dot.com executive about where the winners will be. I said cable and a few of the incumbents would be the winners in VoIP. Seems others are sensing the same thing. Sure companies like AOL and YAHOO will make a stand, … Read more
It’s all just a matter of time before AT&T and SBC are one. Today in Denver the AT&T shareholders voted yes for the merger in a landslide.
TelcoTrash which has a good viewpoint singles out pal James Enck and his coverage of Skype, while also providing some links to some other good Skype related content.
A writer over at Slate has done an exhaustive series of testing. Why am I not surprised that the best of the bunch was what I use primarily as my VoIP provider, CallVantage. While I agree with assessment of Packet8 and Vonage, I have had an entirely different experience with BroadVoice, which has been nothing … Read more
Tom keeps the world thinking Linksys will do an IP=PBX play in the future… What would happen if they imbedded something like Peerio or Asterisk on the boards of their wireless VoIP products…
Seems James Enck has a source telling him the Net2Phone service is layered beneath the MCI VoIP offering…My sources say it’s likely real. So what does this mean…let’s play connect the dotsies…. Net2Phone–back inside IDT IDT—>Services to MCI (USA and Europe???) IDT—> John Malone his company Liberty Media and the United Cable boys are rather … Read more
It looks like the spinout of Net2Phone from IDT is over and that the parent is taking in the child. I also think that this means that IDT is moving more and more into the VOIP space and that by this move continues the trend of consolidation and acquisition that Yahoo began with their Dialpad … Read more
