eWeek has an expanded story about the Yahoo – Dialpad deal, largely reconfirming my two posts earlier this week. A big winner in the deal could be Vancouver’s XTEN, makers of my favorite softphone, eyeBeam. They’ve already licensed their technology to Yahoo (and a few other significant players), something I reported on long before much … Read more
Stealth Communications is one of those off the radar companies I’m a fan of because, like Bridgeport Networks, they sit in the middle of so much that is the future, rather than the past. Today’s LightReading article about Stealth’s ASP model for delivering their Virtual Peering Fabric to VoIP service providers peers nicely under the … Read more
TimeWarner cable has been in talks with Sprint/Nextel for a while and now it looks like Comcast is getting ready to make a play in the wireless space too. Erik of XTEN has some valid insight that explains what’s happening.
If you look at the space that DialPad was in, you have to ask yourself who would be in play next? My first reaction, based on some chatter I’m hearing is that DeltaThree may be the next to get grabbed. First they are partially a damaged good, as two of their VoIP contracts are with … Read more
Seems a second company is out in the Video Skype arena, all before Skype does it themselves. Om has a report.
Tom Keating speculates that Linksys will go into the SOHO phone system space with an IP-PBX platform. If they do then one of their biggest customers, Vonage, likely won’t be too happy, as Vonage is already trialing a Cisco box to manage a hosted Virtual PBX solution…one wonders if the right hand knows what the … Read more
Will the FCC really go to the same level of requiring warning labels that the FTC has done with VideoGames and tobacco products?
MCI has quietly launched their own residential VoIP service called Neighborhood Broadband Calling. Nothing out of the ordinary but I’m looking into it for future commentary. I wonder if this is their own platform or if they have wrapped their network with someone else’s offering to be able to get to market faster.
Jeff shares his high perch viewpoints about the future of VoIP in a Reuters news story that moved around the world earlier today.
They say all it takes is a spark to cause a fire and yesterday’s move by Yahoo to buy six year old Internet phone company Dialpad could be the first of the moves made in the VoIP sector that triggers consolidation. The reasons are not that hard to figure out. First the recent FCC E911 … Read more
