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This Thursday AOL officially launches their VoIP product. While I’m embargo from saying more than what already has been written I can say that other than having to install AOL on a naked PC that never had the software on it before which took some time, the service worked very well. Call quality was on … Read more

Austrian VoIP and ENUM expert Richard Statsny has a very good dissection about Skype and their meteoric rise. Ignore the question about Tipping point and get to the thinking below and you will see some very good thinking. I love his ten points, especially the "Be Scared" if you’re a telco.

Convidea is powering WebEx’s VoIP sessions based on this VON Magazine story. This means more advanced features for users of the best web based presentation platform. It also means that WebEx like services will be available from many others as a standard feature. Embedding conference grade presentation into an IP architecture isn’t that difficult, especially … Read more

I was on holiday so some postings on other sites got missed or overlooked. This one from Tom Evslin is worth a read. While it’s nothing that I haven’t expressed, or shared with others privately, I do think he’s right when it comes to Vonage specifically, and with customer service in general. Basically, for companies … Read more

Want to know more about SpeakEasy and their plans with Business VoIP? Check out this interview by Ted @ Weblogs VoIP column. What is interesting are the claims about QoS and the potential for Video. In the business market, a segment Speakeasy knows very well, Video conferencing may have some potential to be a market … Read more

Tom has a post that mirrors my long time view that VoIP is a delivery medium for content. Once the BOX is in your house, why shouldn’t the carriers be delivering content too. Can you spell Trojan Horse strategy for the Baby Bells and even companies like Vonage?

Earlier in the day I posted about IDC making some claims about VoIP growth. Now another report, via Mark Evans, shows more of the same. The questions both reports bring up really are geared towards when, not so much if, in my mind as I feel the Bells will move people to VoIP without their … Read more

Mark Evans from his perch in the great white north, has an observation in the last line of this post about Packet 8’s announcement that Tom’s Hardware rates them the best, all based on one line in the entire report, which is an opinion of Russell Shaw of ZDNet and VoN magazine. In reading over … Read more

As more and more of the service providers and wireless carriers seem to realize that WiFi and WiMax are the next offerings, and valuable for them both in order to offer a true Foreplay (I know how it’s supposed to be spelled but I think more will come down the road from them all) the … Read more