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 !
James Enck found this interesting tidbit about Skype being put inside a Kiosk. I wonder what NTT is saying about that!
I thought readers my be interested in this. While it is a few days old, it sure sheds some light on Skype and what they are at least thinking about.
I almost missed this one. VoicePulse, one of the carriers with great quality of service, but not a lot of marketing clout has taken a page out of the AT&T vs. MCI era playbook and is offering CASH to get you to switch. If this was VONAGE making the offer I’d say the industry might … Read more
In what has to be good news for the WiFi chipset manufacturers who supply the chips to the cellphone companies, a report shows that four out of ten users of cellphones want WiFi ability built into their handsets.
