Mark Evans of the National Post in Canada has some facts that show the same degree of interest and acceptance about VoIP in the USA is afoot in the land of the Great White North. It’s estimated that Shaw Cable, the number two player in Canada (I think) behind Rogers Cable, is signing up about … Read more
City of London Telecom (COLT) one of the carriers who are making Skype work have announced a Business Grade VoIP service that is geared for Europe.
Skype has announced another termination agreement, this time in Norway. As Skype keeps cutting these kinds of deals, and as they link the various networks together the sound quality of Skype Out has to only improve.
Voice over WiMax interest and demand will grow, once the standards for WiMax get sorted out according to a report. The big reason for this is the fact that WiMax enables the ability to put next generation services where they aren’t now. Developing countries, outlying regions here in the USA where interest for Internet exists, … Read more
Last night the California Public Utilities Commission gave up its attempts to regulate VoIP in the state, formally saying that the FCC is in charge. While consumer watchdog groups think this will be the end of regulation as they know it of phone service, what this really means is the first step towards a national … Read more
The folks at Skype have officially announced Skype In and Skype VoiceMail. i have both. They work fine. Skype continues to offer phone like services for fractions of the cost of regular phone service. For college students who talk mostly to each other and pals from high school this is far better than Vonage’s College … Read more
Packet 8 has sent me another video phone to evaluate. Today they dropped the price on them.
On my daily broadcast for KenRadio I fill in co-host Peter York who is a data networking expert explained that the issue with Comcast was their having a faulty DNS server. That likely led to this whole issue. The problem wasn’t AT&T’s and this could have easily been Vonage or Packet 8 who got broad … Read more
A Skype oriented conference room phone has been introduced.
A new research project about Skype has been started by one of the Blog experts in India. Check out Dina’s post on Stuart’s Skype Journal. I’m beginning to wonder if Skype is behind any of this !
