If you believe the CFO of Vonage, every time a cable company pushes VoIP it helps Vonage. I’m not buying that. What is helping Vonage are extensive retail display programs at leading retailers. While Packet 8 is doing those Pay for Position type of deals also, the unscientific reports from retail floor manager tells me … Read more
James Enck has a delightful piece about Skype and it’s future. He draws out some scenarios. Here’s on he doesn’t though. Skype and Vonage get married. Neither owns any real network assets. Vonage has some infrastructure. Both have mega loads of customers. I must be dreaming..back to sleep.
Ken Belson of the New York Times has a nice piece on the benefits of VoIP. Being that it was written for the “Your Money” section of the Sunday paper the focus was on cost savings but also went into cable companies and call quality. it also included a reference to VONAGE, Verizon and AT&T. … Read more
While I’m not sure this is a good thing, having EvDO on the Macintosh means that I’m connected a heck of a lot more with full Internet access. Today I’m flying to San Jose and while the Silicon Valley is next to come on line from Verizon with Broadband Access, while I’m sitting on the … Read more
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
The SkypeOwl has a list of rather inventive Skype user names. Here’s the list. I also learned that Skype rates in the UK are not all created equal. News Factor analyzes the uptake of Skype and points out why USA adoption may not be as great as in some other parts of the world.
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
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, 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.
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.
