Today Reuters broke the story about MCI’s plans for consumer VoIP in the USA. Sort of. Over a week ago when I first commented on MCI’s launch, their PR team was rather tight lipped and seem to be remaining so. Basically this is a trial, or in real consumer marketing speak, a “test” program to … Read more
According to I2Telecom sales of VoiceStick are very strong. When I read a backlog of orders that means they didn’t project the sales volumes correctly and now have to play catch-up with manufacturing. That’s a good problem to have, unless someone else comes along and fills the gap.
I am keeping a watchful eye on the moves of SK-Earthlink, the new company formed by Earthlink founder Sky Dayton. The reason is simple. Given the relationships he has forged in the past with Sprint, how Boingo is part of his empire and how Earthlink themselves are already into VoIP, one has to realize that … Read more
Yesterday Techdirt had a roundup post about the issues that municipalities still seem to be facing with how to tax VoIP to make up for lost telecom revenue.
Vocera makes those very cool in Star Trek communicator like WiFi phones that are geared for intra-enterprise wide use, today. With some tweaking and technology from say Parus Interactive, it could do a lot more. But even without the Webley technology of speech enabled communications, what Vocera did with Wayport is a major first step … Read more
Last week bankrupt and soon to be be acquired Adelphia allowed a news announcement about their VoIP plans to roll out. S
It’s been over a week since I posed the question to MCI’s PR team lead on consumer offerings and no one has said a peep about what they are up to with their Neighborhood Broadband Calling Offering for residential customers. What they have told me though is that there are some partners involved, but the … Read more
I’m hearing through the grapevine that Lingo may be in the process of some fairly deep layoffs. If so, they may be the first of the VoIP carrier casualties this year.
I didn’t blog the Vonage Avaya announcement because, well, it’s a spin control announcement. Vonage is very good at telling the world what Vonage wants to allow be told. They are still waiting for the lawsuits from Florida to drop so an announcement like this is all about building a good perception with the public … Read more
SightSpeed, a serious player in the online Video to Video chat world is working very closely with Intel. Sightspeed works cross platform very well and while different than XTEN’s eyeBeam, it is also SIP based and very robust. The difference is the network, which SightSpeed manages on their own, while XTEN sells to customers for … Read more
