Bell South To The Rescue

Bell South has joined the list of RBOC’s who are now offering E-911 access. Isn’t funny that all the Baby Bells pretty much have announced the opening of their networks at about the same time? For years I’ve always wondered just how they can all seem to offer the same things at about the same … Read more

VoIP, Vonage, Qwest and Skype

Om Malik must not be sleeping these days, as he’s on a telephonic roll over the past few days, which is one of the reasons I’ve laid back on the Vonage announcement of their new money. If you start to look at things both Skype and Vonage have in common one also has to look … Read more

EvDO and Skype

I took a few minutes with Stuart of Skype Journal yesterday with my new EvDO card that replaces the one I had during the trial. After installing on both a laptop PC and my Mac Powerbook, I Skyped with Stuart on the Mac. The sound was perfect. I look more at the possibilities it provides. … Read more

Qwest VoIP Play-OneFlex

Qwest, which has been embroiled in the MCI take over versus Verizon has quietly launched OneFlex according to Aswath. It seems to me like a “me too” type of offer.

More On E-911 and the Feds

CIO Today has a story that reveals that at one point last summer SBC and Vonage were close on testing an E-911 solution. There’s no reason why SBC backed off or why Vonage didn’t keep pressing for a resolution.

Vonage and Verizon Deal With E-911

Vonage has struck a deal with Verizon to enable customers of the upstart next gen VoIP carrier to get access to the Public Safety Access Points called PSAPs that fall within the Verizon territory. While its too early to tell how the implementation will work, it’s likely that Vonage will offer their customers a few … Read more

Skype Wants to Own It All

Mr. Blog finds out that the SKYPE API means those that develop with it shall give the ownership of the work output to Skype. And people call Microsoft draconian and monopolistic, this is one for the books.